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Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines University Archives & Special Collections Eastern Washington University EWU Digital Commons Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines University Archives & Special Collections 10-1-2006 Smokejumper Magazine, October 2006 National Smokejumper Association Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag Recommended Citation National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Magazine, October 2006" (2006). Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines. 53. https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag/53 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Special Collections at EWU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines by an authorized administrator of EWU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The National Smokejumper Quarterly Magazine SmokejumperAssociation October 2006 Prisoner in Laos—Part 1.................................................................... 7 I Remember Gene DeBruin ............................................................. 14 Black Range Rescue ......................................................................... 19 CONTENTS Message from Message from the President ......................... 2 Lost but Not Lost .......................................... 3 the President Missoula Nightlife ........................................ 4 Profile—Valery Alexandrovich Korotkov ..... 5 tana. The next board meeting is Sounding Off from the Editor ....................... 6 October 7th in Wenatchee, Washing- Prisoner in Laos: A Story of Survival-Part I .. 7 ton, and the next reunion is the I Remember Gene DeBruin ........................ 14 National Reunion in Boise, Idaho, in Gobi 2006 Reunion Photos ........................ 16 2007. Don’t miss that one. There will The View from Outside the Fence ............... 18 be a NCSB reunion in September 2007, and we are planning for the Black Range Rescue ................................... 19 first-ever Redmond reunion in 2008. Odds and Ends ........................................... 21 On this July day of 2006, many Springtime Lakeside .................................. 21 volunteers are out with their pulaskis A Little Piece of String ............................... 22 in hand improving trails, cutting Help Needed—Finn Ward Fund ................. 23 water bars, restoring structures and Checking the Canopy .................................. 24 stretching the stories of old. More by Doug Houston than 140 volunteers are working on NSA Trail Crew ........................................... 25 (Redmond ’73) the trails projects this season. Many Smokejumping Sold to Hollywood ............. 26 PRESIDENT thanks to all of you and especially to Off the List ................................................. 27 GREETINGS TO ALL. You all probably Jon McBride (MSO-54), who is the Joe Rumble Responds to Mann Gulch ........ 28 expected a new face in the magazine; force behind this great program. It The Joyful Wedding of Mike McMillan however, with the board approval, I just continues to grow. Way to go, and Molly McGourty ............................. 30 have signed on for one more year as Jon and crew. Thank You Sharon Westcott ....................... 30 your president. John Twiss (RAC- Lastly, the National Smokejumper The Nomex Fashion Show .......................... 31 67) will assume the duties in July Center Board of Directors met in 2007 National Smokejumper Reunion ...... 32 2008. West Yellowstone last week and are In the last issue, I talked about diligently working on a non-profit Buck Pino (NCSB-66) and the fact status, an operations and business that three Pino brothers had plan, facility location and other jumped; however, that was not true. concepts that are going to make this There were four Pino brothers a huge draw for the three million (Buck, Robert, Frank and John) that tourists that visit Yellowstone jumped and, if times had been National Park each year. The different, I don’t doubt that their emphasis for the center will be on sister Patty would have also been a youth programs and exposure to the jumper. My apologies for that “smokejumper story” to heighten SMOKEJUMPER, ISSUE NO. 53, OCTOBER 2006 ISSN 1532-6160 mistake. Within a three city-block awareness of the past and to the Smokejumper is published quarterly by: area of the Pino’s home in Omak, I future of the program. The site was THE NATIONAL SMOKEJUMPER ASSOCIATION count nine jumpers: The Pino’s, Ben selected because of the numbers that C/O 10 JUDY LANE Hull (NCSB-64), Greg Hillyer go through the park each year and CHICO, CA 95926 (NCSB-67), Barry George (NCSB- will incorporate information on all The opinions of the writers are their own and 73), Terry McCabe (NCSB-58) and of the smokejumper bases, old and do not necessarily reflect those of the NSA. Per- myself. There must have been new. It will not be a museum, but an mission to reproduce Smokejumper in any man- ner must first be obtained in writing. something in the city water. exhibit sharing the story that made NSA Web site: http://www.smokejumpers.com Our last board meeting was in all of us become jumpers and will Managing Editor: Chuck Sheley Cave Junction during their reunion. continue to share those stories and Editing: Ed Booth, Bill Fogarty, Jill Leger, K. G. It turned out to be a lot of fun and adventures. More information can be Sheley, and Denis Symes was attended by quite a few who had found on the Illustrators: McElderry Books, Nick Holmes, jumped there. Stories were flowing www.smokejumpercenter.com website. Chris Demarest, Ken Morris, Dan and Larry Longley (NCSB-72) was Until next time, the door is yours, Veenendaal, and Eric Rajala able to interview several individuals you are hooked up, there is no drift Printing: Larry S. Jackson, Heidelberg for video documentation, and these and the whole world is a jump spot. Graphics, www.HeidelbergGraphics.com will be added to the smokejumper Get out there and enjoy it. Cover photo: Air America C-46. (Courtesy Johnny Kirkley) archives at the University of Mon- 2007 National Reunion 2 June 8–10, Boise, Idaho Lost but Not Lost by Robert Hough (NCSB ’51) storm went through the California/Oregon area in Service on those bags. We 1953. Cave Junction put out a call for help and were told they were as ANorth Cascades came to the rescue. Jim Allen warm as the old, previ- (NCSB-46), the new Cave Junction foreman, met us at the ously supplied down bags. field as we landed. He matched us up with local lads and we Ha, what a laugh! The were on our way out after a minimum delay. My partner (I flannel flap at the top was don’t recall his name) and I jumped deep in the Shasta all that gave even a hint of Forest area. I don’t know what the Cave Junction lad was fabric warmth. Usually doing, but he terminated his descent way up the side of the someone had to keep a fire only giant sequoia on the entire ridge. He used all but about going to keep you from Bob Hough (NSA file) five feet of his 150-foot letdown rope reaching the ground. freezing. One big advan- The fire was a small, easily extinguished lightning strike, and tage of the paper sleeping we had everything under control by nightfall. bag was you could leave the bag and not pack it out. This was the first year for the disposable paper sleeping Anything to make a pack lighter was an advantage. bags. Some manufacturer made a mint from the Forest We survived a very cool night on a ridge top near Mount 123456789012345678901234567890 Shasta. In the morning we finished the mop-up and packed 123456789012345678901234567890 the jump gear. My partner’s chute was a stumbling block. I 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789NSA Members — Save 0 took the let down rope attached to his parachute, climbed 123456789012345678901234567890 123456789012345678901234567890 an adjacent fir tree, cinched the line super tight and 12345678901234567890123456789This Information 0 attempted to pull the chute from the sequoia. The fir tree 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789Please contact the following persons di- 0 bent way over, applying a tremendous force on the chute, 123456789012345678901234567890 but it would not budge. 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