Smokejumpers by Mike McMillan

Paracargo supplies are dropped from the open end of a Casa jumpship. Alaska, 1996. Mike McMillan spotfireimages.com

Murry A. Taylor has been a smokejumper since 1965. He divides his time between Alaska and northern California. Jumping Fire is his first book. Taylor's e-mail address is: murrytay@sisqtel.net• All photographs by Mike McMillan/Spotfire Images • Site by Visual Contact