It was nice and cool when I woke up this morning and smokey. The wind had shifted during the night and there was a layer of smoke over the area. The visibility was still pretty good and the latest of smoke was thin enough that the sky overhead was blue.

A couple hours later the smoke had thickened and the visibility was about a half a mile. There was no longer any blue sky visible overhead. Due to the smoke, firefighting operations had not started.

The Black Hawks returned but then waited for the smoke to clear, which it did around 1:00 PM, after the wind shifted. My plans are to stay here another night and leave tomorrow whenever the smoke allows and head to a location where I can cross the mountains Sunday morning and then be ready to fly into Burning Man on Monday morning.