Tag Archives: Wildfires

Smoke Scene

Sep 6, 2025 Lynette d'Arty-Cross 50 Comments

We have had extremely smoky conditions since Wednesday with a nearby forest fire contributing a lot of the smoke while more has been heading from those brutal fires 2200 km (1367 miles) to the north of us in the Northwest Territories.

This image courtesy of the B.C. Fire Service shows the smoke billowing from a huge fire about an hour north of us.

After a hazy evening on Wednesday we soon became absolutely choked with smoke and hit a “10” on the air quality index, which means that people really should stay inside unless wearing a mask.

Looks rather awful, doesn’t it?

We are thankfully expecting several days of rain within the next 24 hours though, so I hope we will soon be looking more like the above picture very soon!

nature, Photography

Rocky Mountains – Kicking Horse Pass

May 18, 2023 Lynette d'Arty-Cross 18 Comments

I am on my way back to British Columbia from the Northwest Territories, this time via a more southerly route than the one I usually take.

Entering the Rocky Mountains through smoky skies.

Because of this extremely dry, early spring, there are ferocious wildfires in northern Alberta right now. The smoke from these fires is blanketing much of North America.

As we travelled west, the smoke over the Rockies began to decrease.

As we left the Territories, there were many evacuations and our drive through northern Alberta became rather tense when we encountered a long stretch of very dark, orange-hued, smoke-filled skies.