Risky Business Tales Of The Outdoors: Smoke Jumpers

Risky Business tales of the outdoors: Smoke JumpersEarly last summer, on a float trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, a group of us spotted a thin white plume of smoke against the otherwise perfectly blue wilderness sky. We watched for about a half hour, wondering out loud whether the U. S. Forest Service were going to let the blaze burn its course or try somehow to get fire fighters into this roadless spot to knock it down.About the time the ribbon of smoke became a small col...