Per the link cited:
".... closed to public access due to extreme wildfire risk...."
".... While some people are still breaching those lines, " <---(clearly only the terminally stupid)
".... [font=Yrsa, serif]but also to reduce the number of people in the forest who would have to evacuated if something did start".[/font]
Thank the heavens these people are doing their jobs EFFECTIVELY. I was in the area northeast of Sisters OR recently, and it is deep forest with only a few access roads. There have been numerous fires up there over the past several years. I was camping in BLM land to the east of there and saw smoke one morning in the area I had been thinking of visiting in a couple of days. Turned out to be some sort of controlled burn.
I did ultimately camp in there for one night, but the access road was such a potential choke point for getting out that I left. Here: 44.501982, -121.641544. However, most of the campgrounds in the area were full, and mainly with large RVs and trailers that would be a mess to evacuate. Discretion is always the better route.
