Benton, CA   

Once we entered California, just before we got to the town of Benton, we encountered this smoke coming over the hills.  I checked and found that the fire wasn't close, so we kept going uphill towards our hotel at Mammoth Lakes.  The closer we got, the smokier it was.  When we got there, we cancelled our room and drove all the way to Los Angeles.  It made it a 15hour driving day.  A side note... when I was talking to the people at the hotel, they told me the fire was actually on the western side of the mountains near the town of Fresno, CA.