Evaristo Salas Jr.

When someone does something wrong to you,

and they acknowledge that they did that wrong to you, that gives you closure to a certain extent.

And I think that's what that would do for me.

It's been great.

I actually went to two fires yesterday, and they were actually out by the time we got there.

One of them was 20-some acres, and then the other one we went to was seven.

But a crew had went there the day before, and then they kind of mopped up, and it was pretty much out.

And then the second we went to, we actually got lost on the way over there in the mountains, which was freaking great.

Yeah, that was quite an experience.

From the prison, I can see the mountains off in the distance.

Mount Spokane is the most prominent feature out there because it's the highest.

Finally, one morning, all that daydreaming about those mountains was about to become reality.

And so I was heading up to this place and the air is blowing in my face and I can already smell the mountain air and the pines and the forest is getting thicker and thicker as we get closer and closer.

And it's just a wavy, windy road and we're going pretty fast and the air starts to get fresher and cooler.

It was kind of a hot day, but the air was cool.

And so here we are, we pull over to the side and do our little safety brief that we always do.

And what's expected, what we need to watch about, we get dressed up, we get our fire gear or our cutting packs on.

So we head up the side of this, I mean, this Mount Spokane, it's just steep.

It's like, you know, a 50% grade.

And it's like, you're climbing almost most of the time.