Longs Peak with the Arizona fire smoke rolling in from the southwest on May 5th, 2011.

Longs Peak (14,256') as viewed from Flattop Mountain during a ski mountaineering trip into the Dragontail Couloir on Flattop's Southeast Face.  Smoke from the fires in northern Arizona were thick this morning as the prevailing winds were coming directly from there to here and by noon, the entire Estes Valley and RMNP were filled with fire smoke that brought visibility from a typical 100 miles down to just 2 miles.