Research Paper RMRS-RP-9
Fire Behavior Associated with the 1994 South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain, Colorado

Appendix B: Chronology, Fire Behavior, Weather, Distances, Firefighter Travel Rates, and Fire Spread Rates

Table B-2--Measured distances along West Flank Fireline from Zero Point.

Feet		Description
0		Zero Point: Junction of Main Ridge and top of West Flank Fireline
15		Hipke's shelter
82		Hipke's pulaski, no handle
121		Firefighter fatality nearest top of Fireline (Blecha)
142		Bent handle shovel, handle charred
200		Tree and upper end of fatality site
240		Middle of fatality site
283		Lower end of fatality site
392		Pulaski head, no handle
445		Location of narrow Draw where Hipke passed Thrash and Roth
580		Firefighters shown in photos taken by Archuleta and Doehring from Photo Point
680		Top of Spur Ridge
850		Stump and felled tree
1,450		Smokejumper (Hipke) starting point for hike back line toward Main Ridge
1,665		Location of midpoint of Prineville crew prior to order to get out
1,880		Location of end of Prineville Hotshot crew prior to order to get out, fireline to south leads uphill to Lunch Spot
2,100		Lunch Spot

Title: Appendix B: Table B-2 RMRS-RP-9 - Fire Behavior Associated with the 1994 South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain, Colorado
Publish Date: February 5, 1999
Last Update: December 22, 2005

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