This summer the Forest Service, Montana Discovery Foundation, and the National Smokejumper Association will honor those who died on the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire near the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness north of Helena, Montana.
On August 5, 1949, the fire in Mann Gulch overran 15 smokejumpers and a fire guard. Thirteen of them died, memorialized for history in the book Young Men and Fire, a classic by author Norman Maclean that won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction in 1992.
Anniversary poster art by David Goodson, provided courtesy of Montana Discovery Foundation.
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To keep their pilots and aircraft working in the off season in the 1990s, Region 6 used the Sherpa and Barons to transport personnel to training in the off season I was one of the passengers and skip was the pilot of the Sherpa entering the pattern at Redmond Oregon one day. The tower called to advise him of traffic ahead of us. Skip replied “Tally Ho”. That’s the first time I heard a pilot say that. Blue skies and tail winds Skip.
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