Comments on: So You Want My Job: Red Bus Jammer http://artofmanliness.com/2009/10/01/so-you-want-my-job-red-bus-jammer/ Men's Interests and Lifestyle Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug #79 http://artofmanliness.com/2009/10/01/so-you-want-my-job-red-bus-jammer/comment-page-1/#comment-113147 Doug #79 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:42:48 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=4913#comment-113147 Jason, Patrick and my other fellow 1980 Jammers - No kidding, that was one HECK of a summer, not to be duplicated! In that summer alone: Mt St Helens blew and we were coated wih ash, the year of the first woman jammer (Anne), and tragically, the grizzly mauling/killing of 2 of our fellow GNP employees in late July. I'm trying to figure out if I can somehow make it to the jammer reunion in September. Undoubtedly one of the best times of my life! If I could do it, I'd love to do it again. Doug #79 Jason, Patrick and my other fellow 1980 Jammers – No kidding, that was one HECK of a summer, not to be duplicated! In that summer alone: Mt St Helens blew and we were coated wih ash, the year of the first woman jammer (Anne), and tragically, the grizzly mauling/killing of 2 of our fellow GNP employees in late July. I’m trying to figure out if I can somehow make it to the jammer reunion in September. Undoubtedly one of the best times of my life! If I could do it, I’d love to do it again. Doug #79

]]> By: PJK http://artofmanliness.com/2009/10/01/so-you-want-my-job-red-bus-jammer/comment-page-1/#comment-113145 PJK Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:06:47 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=4913#comment-113145 Jason: Man up! Relive how real men lived in one summer. Come to the Jammer Reunion and see 1980 revisted! http://glacierjammers.com/index.html PJK #84 Jason:

Man up! Relive how real men lived in one summer. Come to the Jammer Reunion and see 1980 revisted!

http://glacierjammers.com/index.html

PJK #84

]]> By: Jason Wood http://artofmanliness.com/2009/10/01/so-you-want-my-job-red-bus-jammer/comment-page-1/#comment-100007 Jason Wood Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:54:46 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=4913#comment-100007 The summer of `80 will go down in the book of my life as one of the best ever. That was the summer I headed west from Massachusetts where I was going to college (UMass Amherst) to work as a Jammer at Glacier. #104 was my ride. I used to keep a sleeping bag in the back luggage area of the bus so if the snoring got too loud in the bunkhouses, I could crash there. Bob Steele was the transportation coordinator that year - the greatest guy ever. He loved fishing. When asked, "hey Bob, what's the best way to clean these trout"?, he'd reply, "ya just stick a knife in the ol @#!hole and go north!" So many great Glacier memories from that summer... toga parties included ;-) Would love to reconnect with other fellow Jammers from 1980, especially Annie who I think was the first woman Jammer ever and who I was crazy about but it took me all summer to realize it and then I let her get away. Damn! The summer of `80 will go down in the book of my life as one of the best ever. That was the summer I headed west from Massachusetts where I was going to college (UMass Amherst) to work as a Jammer at Glacier. #104 was my ride. I used to keep a sleeping bag in the back luggage area of the bus so if the snoring got too loud in the bunkhouses, I could crash there. Bob Steele was the transportation coordinator that year – the greatest guy ever. He loved fishing. When asked, “hey Bob, what’s the best way to clean these trout”?, he’d reply, “ya just stick a knife in the ol @#!hole and go north!” So many great Glacier memories from that summer… toga parties included ;-) Would love to reconnect with other fellow Jammers from 1980, especially Annie who I think was the first woman Jammer ever and who I was crazy about but it took me all summer to realize it and then I let her get away. Damn!

]]> By: Bill Schuler http://artofmanliness.com/2009/10/01/so-you-want-my-job-red-bus-jammer/comment-page-1/#comment-99637 Bill Schuler Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:26:21 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=4913#comment-99637 I was a Jammer for 5 Seasons throughout the 1980's. Some of the guys I trained are still working there My Ride was #91, not a great cruiser on the flats but she could really pull on the hills, The Chevy engines and tranies seemed to work that way. I would still be doing it if I could afford it. I am luckier than most. During the summer months I work as a tour director. I generally get into Glacier several times each summer. A lot of the guys that have driven never get back. I do miss the old days before the conversion. I spent a few weeks in 1990 driving the connverted buses. That, by the way was the first conversion to a modern frame, not the one done by Ford. That was when the corrosion problems started. That first conversion was so badly concieved and the workmanship so poor that we almost lost them perminantly. I am really looking forward to the Jammer reunion. No matter when you worked there you are part of a very exclusive fraternity. I was a Jammer for 5 Seasons throughout the 1980′s. Some of the guys I trained are still working there My Ride was #91, not a great cruiser on the flats but she could really pull on the hills, The Chevy engines and tranies seemed to work that way. I would still be doing it if I could afford it. I am luckier than most. During the summer months I work as a tour director. I generally get into Glacier several times each summer. A lot of the guys that have driven never get back. I do miss the old days before the conversion. I spent a few weeks in 1990 driving the connverted buses. That, by the way was the first conversion to a modern frame, not the one done by Ford. That was when the corrosion problems started. That first conversion was so badly concieved and the workmanship so poor that we almost lost them perminantly. I am really looking forward to the Jammer reunion. No matter when you worked there you are part of a very exclusive fraternity.

]]> By: Elmer Gaudet http://artofmanliness.com/2009/10/01/so-you-want-my-job-red-bus-jammer/comment-page-1/#comment-98004 Elmer Gaudet Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:05:42 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=4913#comment-98004 I forgot to mention the Glacier National Park Gearjammer reunion is for ALL jammers from all years. Check the website www.glacierjammers.com for information and to register. I forgot to mention the Glacier National Park Gearjammer reunion is for ALL jammers from all years. Check the website http://www.glacierjammers.com for information and to register.

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