Hook Up and Get in the Door - Doran, John
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In this volume of memoirs, John Doran recounts his years as a smokejumper based out of the North Cascades Smokejumper Base in Washington's remote Methow Valley, home the original smokejumping experiments in 1939. His stories from his service from 1972-1974 are fascinating. "I guess I could probably find more stories than the ones I've collected here," says Doran. "But these are the ones-when I sit on the whiskey porch of an evening watching the sun go down and this jump plane flies over like it did this morning-that make me think, 'God, be with those boys. I know what they're getting into, and I wish I was on that plane with them.'"…mehr

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In this volume of memoirs, John Doran recounts his years as a smokejumper based out of the North Cascades Smokejumper Base in Washington's remote Methow Valley, home the original smokejumping experiments in 1939. His stories from his service from 1972-1974 are fascinating. "I guess I could probably find more stories than the ones I've collected here," says Doran. "But these are the ones-when I sit on the whiskey porch of an evening watching the sun go down and this jump plane flies over like it did this morning-that make me think, 'God, be with those boys. I know what they're getting into, and I wish I was on that plane with them.'"
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Firefighter, smokejumper, rancher, wilderness packer, and Cowboy Poet John Doran lives just outside Twisp, Washington.When you spend time with John around a campfire, you'll hear a lot of tales. And you'll think a passel of them of fairly tall.But after a time you'll find them to be true. Or you'll at least want them to be true.