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Siskiyou smokejumper meets scuba diver.  Siskiyou smokejumper base, Illinois Valley Airport, Highway 199, Cave Junction, Oregon.

  You never know who you will meet when you jump from an airplane. Photo by Doug Beck

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Stories  - Siskiyou Smokejumper Base

Historic Siskiyou Smokejumper Base, Cave Junction, Oregon

 

Short Stories

Shroud Line Caper: A clever way to write your name in fresh cement...

Ice Cream Drop: Creating great memories from a routine job...

Ghost Parachutes: A raging fire launches parachutes into the sky...

Potato Bomb:   A sack of potatoes practically destroys a wood stove...

Rescue Jump: The drama and rigor faced by smokejumpers...

Pump House Dangle: Creative ways to get a job done...

Mouse and the Corpse: A hilarious story told by Mouse Owens....

Moon Trees: A Siskiyou smokejumper becomes an astronaut and takes tree seeds to the moon...

Parachute oddities: I steered backwards while my parachute went up....

 

History Articles

Journey of a Jump Tower: Where it came from and where it went to...

Smokejumper Aircraft: Planes that were used in the first ten years of Siskiyou Smokejumper Base operations...

Narrow Gauge Trail: An unusual trail designed for an unusual truck...

Illinois Valley Airport: An ordinary airfield with an extraordinary future...

Smokejumper Airplane Crash: Smokejumpers watch as their plane goes down...

Oregon's First Smokejumper Base: Cave Junction is home to Oregon's first smokejumper base...

Training Smokejumpers: A discussion about the devices used to train smokejumpers at the Siskiyou Base...

 

More History

Siskiyou Smokejumper Base TIME LINE

 

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