Oral History Interview with Ashley O. Court 1984 June 6 (Side A)

Ashley Court discusses his long career as a smokejumper from 1963 to 1982 working out of the North Cascades Smokejumping Base in Winthrop Washington as well as the satellite base in La Grande Oregon eastern states and Alaska. He talks about the fires in Washington and Oregon during his tenure the changes in equipment and his experiences jumping with Canadians and Russians.