Smoke Over the Southern Sierras, California

The smoke you see here, hanging over the Southern Sierras, is likely from the Vista fire, which was burning at the time I took this photo. (See MODIS Active Fire Detections - August 25, 2007.)

In early August, large swaths of the Mojave had been choked by smoke blowing in from the Zaca fire in the Los Padres National Forest — two-hundred some-odd miles by car from where this photo was taken.