The Seeley fire is visible from much of highway 10 from Price to Castle Dale. Price is full to bursting with firefighting crews, both government and private contracted commercial help. While we were there, the southerly wind took most of the smoke north into Helper. Driving through Helper reminded me a lot of Samuel R. Delany's novel "Dhalgren". It felt like we were driving through the town of Bellona. Thick smoke, a dark reddened sky. Awfull. Much of the smoke was eventually settling into Utah valley. On our return trip, you couldn't even see the block "Y" on the side of the mountain from i-15. It cleared-up quite a bit by the time we hit the Salt Lake Valley. Kelly and I both suffered sinus trouble from the poor air quality during the drive. Glad I had a new cabin air filter installed in the Kia a couple of weeks ago. That said, from Castle Dale, the sky to the south including the Wedge area was remarkably clear- totally untouched by the smoke. It's still about three weeks from new-moon weekend, and anything can happen between now and then, but anybody who was down there this week for some late-night dark skies wouldn't have been affected by the fires and resultant smoke at all.