[QUOTE=cerealkilla';2916705]Important notice for riders headed to the Alice Lake area. There was a forest fire off Jacks and the sh*tty esses on Sunday (including Icy Hole area). The firefighters knocked it down and put it out fast. However, there is still flagging tape up that cuts off a significant area from public access. It is best for your safety, and for respect to firefighter clean-up, that you obey the tape, even if it means turning back and pedaling or hiking for a while. The fire is out, but there are still dangerous trees that need to be mitigated and knocked down, and potential hot-spots to deal with.
ALSO…exercise care if smoking, or if you see someone being a careless douchebag with their butts or campfire. Don't just stand and watch. We don't yet know what started the fire, but inevitably it is idiot smokers or dumbass campers that cause the majority of human-caused fires out there.
FFS- every year it seems we're held hostage by the nicotine-addicted and pyro zombie crowd. There's this thing called vaping folks. And who need's a f88king campfire when it's 25 degrees out anyway?
I'll make sure to tell every pot smoking mountain biker I see in Squamish, which seems to be all but me, that they should just vape.