Slated for Friday through Sunday, June 20-22, at the University of Montana (with visits to the Missoula Smokejumpers Base near the airport), the celebration should draw between 400 and 700 former ...

Sewing backpacks and duffels on a sawhorse in his Missoula apartment, Crone launched Nargear in the early 2000s. Demand for ...

There are nine smokejumper bases in the U.S., and when it came time for Crone to choose, he was given the option of Missoula, among other places. As the birthplace of smokejumping, Missoula ...

With only nine bases across the U.S., smokejumpers face intense physical and mental tests to qualify, often recruited from the highly skilled Hotshot crews. It’s a dangerous, demanding role ...

It’s spring training at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base (NCSB). Despite U.S. Forest Service budget cuts and firings, most of the full complement of 30 jumpers returned this year. I have a ...

He joined the Forest Service fire crew at Canoe Gulch, Libby, Mont., and later transferred to the Grangeville, Idaho, smokejumper base. Smoke jumping was the love of Alex’s life, along with the ...

From 1974 to 1997 he had a career with the U.S. Forest Service starting in the warehouse. He was promoted to the smokejumper base facility manager, and then to the regional office as the tribal ...

There are only two parattack bases in Canada and both are in B.C.'s Prince George Fire Centre, one in Mackenzie and the other in Fort St. John, employing 60 smokejumpers. Greg Jones has been ...

Publisher Rock It Games, in cooperation with City Connection, and developer Sickhead Games have announced Bases Loaded and Super Bases Loaded collection Jaleco Sports: Bases Loaded. It is ...

Ramírez made a nice play to get Milwaukee’s Andruw Monasterio out at second base with the bases loaded for the final out. In the home half, he stole two bases after getting aboard with a single ...