On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT), Man in the Back Country
wrote:

Thankfully the fire was halted by fire beaters and helicopter water
drops about 0.5mile from my tent!

Looks like no more than a bit of normal heather burning from the size
of the smoke plume. I'd have unpitched the tent and made for a get
away if I was downwind from such a fire.

The speed of progression of the front edge was alarming. I suspect you
would have struggled to have outrun it.

Run through it, the flame front is quite narrow and behind there is
little really burning as your photos of the aftermath show. The loose
surface dry grass and heather has gone but it's hardly marked the
stuff close to the ground. Obviously pick your point to go through
where the flames are smallest...

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.