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When James Sponsler and two close friends set out on a backpacking trip Friday night over Labor Day Weekend, they didn’t know the Creek Fire had started 30 miles away. “Just about lunch time on Saturday was when we noticed the massive thunderhead,” says Sponsler. “Unbeknownst to us, this was the fire itself.” The three have been hiking portions of the 214-mile-long John Muir Trail over the last four years, and this was the first time they’d hit the trail together all summer. Last year, they hiked through a downpour, so they were ready to push through what looked like more rain. They arrived at Rosemarie Meadow right on schedule Saturday night, and set up camp. Sunday morning they woke up to smoke. “The best way to describe it is like fog, but it was smoke,” says Albert Yurgal, who was on the trail with Sponsler. “We never ever, ever saw fire, all we saw was smoke.” Yurgal says that’s when he checked his satellite pager and saw that his wife was trying to reach him. “Without even
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