Is It Safe to Hike in Wildfire Smoke? // Backpacker Magazine

Aug 28, 2018 by

If you’ve been hiking in the western US this summer, odds are that you’ve seen the smoke from this season’s super-size wildfires. Mother Nature has been making up for years of human-driven fire suppression, and some officials say this could be the new normal for the foreseeable future. And for smoke-sensitive backpackers, that’s a bummer.

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