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SMOKEJUMPER, ISSUE NO. 49, OCTOBER 2005 As Petite Flakes of Heaven Float Down and Alight The National Smokejumper Quarterly Magazine SmokejumperAssociation October 2005 Inside This Issue: Sallee Corrects Mann Gulch Errors......................................................... 3 Smokejumpers and the Taiwan Mission .................................................. 9 The Rescue of Johnny Davis ................................................................. 16 CONTENTS Message from Message from the President ......................... 2 Snowstorm ................................................... 2 Mann Gulch Survivor Corrects Errors .......... 3 the President Smokejumping Under the Midnight Sun ...... 5 Sounding Off from the Editor ....................... 7 especially life members. Life Historical Memo from Frank Derry .............. 8 members are very important to Members of Missoula Elite Unit the longevity of the NSA. Recruited for CIA Mission to Taiwan ...... 9 2) Further investing in higher Over the Se Khong River ............................ 11 From My Desk ............................................ 12 yield return, yet not high risk, The View from Outside the Fence ............... 13 investments. This will keep us up The Fish Lake Project ................................ 14 with inflation. The Rescue of Johnny Davis ....................... 16 3) Turning our merchandising Get-together in Texas ................................. 17 over to Western Heritage, a Iditarod in Winter ...................................... 18 highly regarded company out of Odds and Ends ........................................... 20 Colorado. NSA will maintain a Recipe for a Smokejumper Gathering ........ 22 Julie ........................................................... 23 consultant role, however. Western It’s a Long Way to CJ .................................. 24 Heritage will handle all sales and Items from the Fire Pack ........................... 26 by Doug Houston inventory. It is a very exciting The Last Ford Jump? .................................. 27 (Redmond ’73) arrangement for the NSA. Psychology of a Smokejumper ................... 28 The most recent board meeting, PRESIDENT Checking the Canopy .................................. 31 held in Redding, had over 90 show Mountain Jumping—Chronicle of an IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that one year of up for the Saturday night social Ex-smokejumper ................................. 32 my two-year term is already in the including a dozen jumpers as recent Vietnam Tour ............................................. 33 Blast from the Past ..................................... 34 past. It has been a very rewarding as 2005. The next meeting will be in June 2005—A Memorial Service Long year, and I believe that the board is Bend, Oregon, October 1, 2005, Overdue ............................................... 34 very strong and moving in a with a social that night. Put it on Boots Begone ............................................. 35 direction that will keep the NSA your calendar and we’ll see you there. A National Fire Plan ................................... 36 solid for many years. Some of those Until then, the door is yours, Off the List ................................................. 37 items that we have done and are your static line is clear, and the A CPS Smokejumper’s Seven Training doing: whole world is a jump spot. Enjoy Jumps—“T’ain’t the pilot nor the spotter but it’s me, oh Lord” ............................ 38 1) Gaining more membership, the ride... Snowstorm Squall ye, stark wind from the North! Blanket us with snow—douse out summer’s torch. Your first snow fill hearts with delight SMOKEJUMPER, ISSUE NO. 49, OCTOBER 2005 As petite flakes of heaven float down and alight. ISSN 1532-6160 Smokejumper is published quarterly by: I see not a rainbow, customary of spring, THE NATIONAL SMOKEJUMPER ASSOCIATION Just winter white, star-studded icing. C/O 10 JUDY LANE CHICO, CA 95926 Quilt Mother Earth with crystallization. The opinions of the writers are their own and Cover the scars of man’s laceration. do not necessarily reflect those of the NSA. NSA Web site: http://www.smokejumpers.com Blizzard the crags and swallow the valleys! Managing Editor: Chuck Sheley Drive us to clear walks and plow through alleys. Editing: Bill Fogarty, Emmy Haynes, Jill Leger, Using frost as your medium-sketch on our glass, K. G. Sheley, and Denis Symes Drift over our eaves and close down the pass. Illustrators: McElderry Books, Nick Holmes, Chris Demarest, Ken Morris, Dan Perhaps, ye were meant to slow down life’s pace- Veenendaal, and Eric Rajala Rekindling warmth of family around the fireplace. Printing: Larry S. Jackson, Heidelberg Graphics, www.HeidelbergGraphics.com Hal Meili (Cave Junction ’52) Cover photo: Joe Don Morton (Courtesy Mike McMillan) Check the NSA Web site 2 www.smokejumpers.com Mann Gulch Survivor Corrects Errors by Carl Gidlund (Missoula ’58) ire and Ashes,” a book by John Maclean, contains sev- Records maintained eral errors, and Bob Sallee (MSO-49) wants those that by Missoula’s Aerial Fire Frelate to the Mann Gulch Fire corrected. Depot corroborate The error that concerns him most is about his fellow ’49 Sallee’s memory: He re- rookie and Mann Gulch survivor Walter Rumsey (MSO-49). calls that 10 days after It’s in a section of the book called “The Last Survivor.” That their August 5 jump into was written about Sallee as the last of the three smokejumpers Mann Gulch, Sallee and who survived the 1949 fire on Montana’s Helena National Rumsey were dropped Forest that killed 12 jumpers and a wilderness guard. on a two-man fire into In that story, Maclean writes that Rumsey couldn’t bring Pattee Canyon on the himself to jump after the Mann Gulch disaster. Lolo National Forest just “That’s just not true,” Sallee says. “Walt and I jumped two east of Missoula. other fires together after Mann Gulch, and he jumped two Then, on August 19, Bob Sallee (NSA file) more after that.” Sallee and Rumsey were 123456789012345678901234567890 paired again, this time on 123456789012345678901234567890 a 16-man fire near Plains, Mont. 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789NSA Members — Save 0 The fire depot’s jump records indicate Rumsey jumped two 123456789012345678901234567890 123456789012345678901234567890 more fires, on August 27 and September 2, 1949. Fire records 12345678901234567890123456789This Information 0 for that year are incomplete, however, and there’s no indica- 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789Please contact the following persons di- 0 tion of where those fires were. 123456789012345678901234567890 As indicated by the title of Maclean’s piece, Sallee, at 72, is 12345678901234567890123456789rectly if you have business or questions: 0 123456789012345678901234567890 the last living witness to what occurred in Mann Gulch. Fore- 12345678901234567890123456789Smokejumper magazine 0 man Wagner “Wag” Dodge (MSO-41), who ignited a rescue 12345678901234567890123456789Articles, obits, change of address 0 123456789012345678901234567890 fire the other jumpers disdained to use, died of Hodgkin’s 12345678901234567890123456789Chuck Sheley 530-893-0436 0 Disease in 1955. Walter Rumsey perished in 1980 in a com- 123456789012345678901234567890 [email protected] 0 muter plane crash near Omaha. 123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678910 Judy Ln 0 Sallee feels an obligation to set the record straight for his 12345678901234567890123456789Chico CA 95926 0 fellow jumpers, for students of the fire, and for future histori- 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789Membership 0 ans who may read this article. 123456789012345678901234567890 Maclean’s account states that 15 jumpers were dispatched 12345678901234567890123456789Fred Cooper 503-391-9144 0 123456789012345678901234567890 to Mann Gulch. Actually 16 jumpers were on the load, but [email protected] 0 turbulent air caused one jumper to become so sick he was 123456789012345678901234567890 123456789012345678901234567891445 Ranier Loop NW 0 unable to jump. He remained with the aircraft and returned 12345678901234567890123456789Salem OR 97304-2079 0 123456789012345678901234567890 to the jumpers’ Missoula base. 12345678901234567890123456789All else 0 The other errors in John Maclean’s Mann Gulch piece con- 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789Doug Houston 406-844-0326 0 cern the sequence of events after the fire blew up and the iden- 123456789012345678901234567890 tification of the Forest Service’s principal investigator. [email protected] 0 123456789012345678901234567890 According to Maclean’s account, Sallee followed Rumsey 12345678901234567890123456789NSA President 0 through rimrock on the north escarpment of Mann Gulch after 12345678901234567890123456789P.O. Box 1022 0 123456789012345678901234567890 Sallee stopped to look into the gulch. 12345678901234567890123456789Lakeside, MT 59922 0 Sallee says that’s incorrect. He was the first one through the 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789Trail project 0 rimrock and he looked back, he says, only after he’d made it 123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789Jon McBride 406-728-2302 0 through, with Rumsey on his heels. 123456789012345678901234567890 Maclean writes that, after the main fire passed through the [email protected] 0 123456789012345678901234567890 gulch, Dodge left his rescue fire, climbed to the ridge top and there met Sallee
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