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Sundance Mountain, the point of origin for 

 the fire, is on a spur off the Selkirk Divide 

 east of the town of Coolin, Idaho. (Topo- 

 graphic relationships of the fire area are 

 shown in figure 1 ; see also the f oldout map at 

 the back of this paper.) The fire up to Sep- 



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Figure 1 . — Topographic diagram of the Sundance 

 Fire area. 



tember 1 was confined to the lower Soldier 

 Creek (elev. 3,600 ft.) and Lost Creek (4,800 

 ft.) drainages (fig. 2), which lie west and 

 southwest of Sundance Mountain. On Sep- 

 tember 1, it progressed northeast up to the 

 Divide, engulfing Jeru Peak (6,394 ft.) and 

 Hunt Peak (more than 7,000 ft.), and skirting 

 south of Gunsight Peak (7,357 ft.). As may be 

 noted in figure 1, the elevation drops from 

 5,800 ft. at the saddles along the Divide to 

 3,800 ft. on the Pack River at the north edge 

 of the fire path and to 2,600 ft. at the south 

 edge. Northeast out of Pack River is Apache 

 Ridge, running to the southeast; here the fire 

 path is bounded by Roman Nose Mountain on 

 the north at 7,264 ft. and Dodge Peak on the 

 south at 5,026 ft. Northeast of Apache Ridge 

 the terrain slopes to the southeast and is cut 

 by the major drainages of Falls Creek, High- 

 land Creek, Ruby Creek, and Caribou Creek. 

 The fire ended its run near Snow Peak (more 

 than 4,000 ft.) and worked toward Bonners 

 Ferry, Idaho, down Caribou Creek to an ele- 

 vation of 2,800 ft. 



Figure 2. — Sundance Mountain, looking to the northeast, with Chase Lake in foreground and Selkirk Divide 

 in near background. Lost Creek is in center and Soldier Credc drainage on left edge. 



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