#mann gulch

[thatdisasterauthor]

Neat new documentary about one of the earliest tragedies in wildland firefighting is coming out next month, apparently. Hadn't heard about it until now but I'm very excited to see it!

[techrefs]

[walaw717]

On Growing old

I circled back to general resolutions I had made to myself about getting old. I kept returning to my seventieth birthday, seventy seemingly being what man has been given as his biblical allotment on earth. I sat in my study, making clear to myself, possibly even with gestures, my homespun anti-shuffle board philosophy of what to do when I was old enough to be scripturally dead. I wanted this possible extension of life to be hard as always but also new, something not done before....."

Norman F. Mclean, Young Men, and Fire

Mann Gulch

[hiawathab]

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Helena, MT

[hiawathab]

David Navon had been a 1st Lieutenant in the Airborne, at Bastogne.  He almost made it to the top of the Gulch, right next to Diettert.

[hiawathab]

Some recovered bits and pieces