Skies in the Tooele Valley still smokey but improving. Suspecting the fire was getting smaller I flew out west yesterday and saw that it is considerably smaller and less smokey than when I saw it Wednesday. Here's how it looked from the south looking north on Wednesday: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/patchsprings20130814.jpg And here it is yesterday from the north looking south: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/patchsprings20130816.jpg The top of the smoke is still way up there. Before taking the picture I'd made a jump at the Tooele airport where we got out at 13,000 feet above the ground and we were still in it (on a side note, on that jump I set my personal vertical speed record of 183 mph <before losing it and flying all out of control> ) So, maybe if the rain holds off the skies will be ok for this evening's Stansbury Days star party at SPOC. patrick