![]() The results were unnervingly erratic - most houses were gone, but some of them survived, untouched, surrounded by piles of cinders where their neighbor's homes used to stand. ![]() ![]() Once the ashes were cool, my parents took me to see the remains of the Skeleton Fire, a blaze that decimated a neighborhood east of Bend, Oregon. Henry's trip down 'Cripple Gulch', minor as it ends up being, is easily one of the most terrifying things that can happen out there.Īnd, of course, there's the entire concept of wildfire, which is easily the scariest for locals - you can treat cliffs with caution and escape from animals (they actually trained us how to do that in school, and God help you if you mix up the procedures for bears and cougars), but you can't really predict what a fire will do. For every hiker mauled by a bear, there are ten who slip off a ledge, get swept away by a river, or trip into a ravine and aren't able to recover. Delilah's crack about spelunkers dying in the closed off cave near Henry's tower may seem like a flippant bit of atmosphere, but that's a very real way you can actually die if you don't take the necessary precautions. However, that's not what you have to worry about most out in the great wide wilderness - the terrain is a much greater threat, and Firewatch understands that too.
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