Wildfires and smoke upend outdoor vacation plans for pandemic-weary Americans
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Andy Farquhar's plans for an outdoor adventure have gone up in smoke twice this summer.
The retired attorney and teacher from the Philadelphia area had planned to hike with a friend for several weeks on the Pacific Crest Trail north of Lake Tahoe until the second-largest fire in California history stampeded across the Sierra Nevada, closing a 160-mile stretch of the trail and blanketing the region in thick smoke. "I saw a satellite view of where we were going, and all it was was fire," he said.More Related News