UPDATE: now the fire is at 23,000 acres burned and at 3% containment. Each park is 3 miles away from different flanks of the fire. For the past few days the prevailing winds have been from the NW making the fire spread SE. However, beginning later today and for the weekend, the winds will shift from the S. Hopefully this will turn the fire back on itself and maybe even burn itself out (going back over fuels it already consumed).
We had made no back up plan. The only thing we'd thought of that could hamper our plans was rain and it NEVER (read: rarely) rains in Big Sur in October. So now we have no idea what to do for back up. I think we'll give this situation a few more weeks and see how its shaking out, and then more seriously pursue a back up.
Sarah ... thanks for sending your boys (and gals) up this way!!!
