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058 Smokejumper Issue 058 J The National Smokejumper Quarterly Magazine SmokejumperAssociation January 2008 Ever Have a Fire with Jerry Daniels?.................................................5 A Tribute to Pilot Jim Larkin .........................................................12 A Critique of Rescue Dawn ............................................................23 CONTENTS Message from Message from the President ......................... 2 Idaho Needs to Welcome the Morgans Home 3 the President Elections for NSA ......................................... 3 Were You Ever on a Fire with Jerry Daniels? 5 Odds and Ends ............................................. 6 of our soul. We are jumpers, active or not. The reality is that the next jump by Fire Information .......................................... 8 any one of these young jumpers could Jumper Ingenuity in Alaska, 1961 ................ 9 bring them into their definition of the Spotting ..................................................... 10 ranks of the NSA. A Tribute to Jim Larkin-Forest Service Pilot 12 I was very fortunate not being in- A “Friends-Helping-Friends” Request ........ 14 jured thru 535 jumps, often feeling New NSA Life Members Since January 2007 14 bulletproof just like a lot of the young The View from Outside the Fence ............... 15 jumpers. However, that could have Jumping the Steens .................................... 16 been altered at any jump. So, those Ted Dethlefs Collection Centerfold ............ 18 that think the NSA is just for those John E. “Jack” Nash-Another Pioneer Jumper outside the ranks of the active, please 20 rethink that concept and accept the Russian Smokejumper Ivan Alexandrovich by Doug Houston fact that we all are one, bonded by the Novik ................................................... 21 (Redmond ’73) smokejumping experiences of the past, If It Could Go Wrong, It Did! ...................... 22 PRESIDENT present, and the future. It’s all good. A Critique of the Movie Rescue Dawn ......... 23 TOP OF THE MORNING to You all. Paige Until next time, there’s 100 yards of drift, the whole world is a jump NSA Offers Gift Membership ...................... 24 and I just returned from the NCSB spot, your static line is clear, and the NSA Trail Crew ........................................... 25 reunion. What a great event, with door is yours. Get ready. Enjoy the Summer Trail Project-It Was Different ....... 25 jumpers from the 40s thru the rookie class of 2007. Combined with the ride, each and every day. Memories of Dave Crowder ....................... 27 Redding and Boise reunions, it was Memorial Service NCSB Reunion September 2007 .................................. 28 quite a year of renewed friendships and opportunity to make new friends. One Off the List ................................................. 29 of those for me was Charley Moseley Please Tell Us Touching All Bases ..................................... 30 (CJ-62) from LA, that’s Lower Ala- When You Play the Pipes for Me ................................. 32 bama. He’s quite a character with a great outlook on life. You look at the Change Your sweat equity of all of the volunteer Address hours put into these reunions, the cost The postal service does of travel, lodging, food for everyone; NOT forward your copy however, when you see old friends of Smokejumper when you SMOKEJUMPER, ISSUE NO. 58, JANUARY 2008 hugging one another and new ac- ISSN 1532-6160 quaintances shaking hands, the value move or leave home for an Smokejumper is published quarterly by: of all of this is………priceless. extended time period. It is THE NATIONAL SMOKEJUMPER ASSOCIATION In conversation at NCSB, I learned returned to us and the C/O 10 JUDY LANE that some present day jumpers refer to NSA is charged an CHICO, CA 95926 the NSA as “not smokejumpers any- The opinions of the writers are their own and more.” I guess that means the NSA is additional first class do not necessarily reflect those of the NSA. Per- postage fee. With 30–40 mission to reproduce Smokejumper in any man- just for those that can’t step foot out the ner must first be obtained in writing. door any longer. This reference bothers returns per mailing it gets NSA Web site: http://www.smokejumpers.com me quite a lot. We could have named expensive and takes a lot of Managing Editor: Chuck Sheley the organization NASA, meaning “not time. Please let Chuck Editing: Ed Booth, Bill Fogarty, Johnny Kirkley, active smokejumpers anymore;” how- Jill Leger, and K. G. Sheley ever that acronym was already taken. Sheley know if you have Illustrators: McElderry Books, Nick Holmes, The fact is, and it is reinforced at every any change in your Chris Demarest, Ken Morris, Dan reunion or just in conversation with mailing address. His Veenendaal, and Eric Rajala jumpers and ex-jumpers, we all are contact information is on Printing: Larry S. Jackson, Heidelberg jumpers for life, whether we jumped for Graphics, www.HeidelbergGraphics.com page three. Cover photo: Missoula 1947 (Wally Dobbins col- one year or 20. It is who we are, our lection) identity of character integrated as a part Check the NSA Web site 2 www.smokejumpers.com Idaho Needs To Welcome The Morgans Home by Tim Woodward Reprinted with the permission of the author and the “Idaho States- The e-mail ended with Clay saying he was “home man” from the Monday, September 3, 2007 edition. cleaning the grout in the kitchen.” It was an example not only of the role reversals that have lay Morgan (MYC-74), husband of the famous become commonplace in our society - once it was only men teacher-turned-astronaut, sent an e-mail this spring who blasted into space - but of how much the Morgans´ Cthat still makes me laugh. lives have changed. In it, he described his wife Barbara´s training schedule When they left their McCall home nine years ago for while preparing for her space mission. One day, she was Barbara to train as an astronaut in Houston, the two flying a test plane in California; the next, she was training in Morgans were about equally well-known in Idaho. Barbara Canada. Then she was off to Cape Canaveral or some other was a third grade teacher who had succeeded Christa exotic spot. McAuliffe as the designated teacher in space. 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