Intuitive fred888: Safe in Mt. Shasta

We drove up yesterday and mostly everything was okay doing this except the smoke likely from Slash and Burn techniques used by farmers from about Red Bluff North until you got up into the mountains. However, there must have been an air inversion because the smoke was so bad it burned your throat because it was so bad heading north through Red Bluff and Redding into the mountains.

I suppose one way to combat this problem would be to recycle the air in the car but when the altitude starts thinning the air above Shasta Dam you sort of need the outside air so you have enough air to breathe as you gain altitude up to about 3500 feet in Mt. Shasta. After you get passed Shasta Dam and Lake then the smoke thins out and the air is clearer once again.

If I'm in Mt. Shasta in the summers when there are fires sometimes I often have to pack up and leave at age 77 and head south simply because the smoke is too much for me at this age (unless I lived here and was adjusted from living here once again to the altitude enough (a week or two) to withstand the smoke.

But, it takes your body some time to adjust to the altitude fully and it cannot often do this in the smoke if you are older.

So, just like in all things: "It's Adapt or die!"

However, the moon will be full tomorrow evening and so it is very beautiful here in Mt. Shasta and it was clear enough to get some good shots from my phone of Mt. Shasta with an almost full moon next to it.

Here are some great ones from Google Images so you can see what this can look like: