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Firebirds in the Seventies |
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Driftwood Bay, Alaska File Size: 141K Photo by Don Bowers, Jan. 1976 |
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Cape Lisburne, Alaska File Size: 99K Photo by Don Bowers, Jan. 1978 |
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Cape Newenham, Alaska File Size: 110K Photo by Don Bowers, Feb. 1975 |
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Cape Lisburne, Alaska File Size: 41K Photo by Don Bowers, Feb. 1978 |
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Cape Newenham, Alaska File Size: 107K Photo by Don Bowers, Jan. 1978 |
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Cape Romanzof, Alaska File Size: 159K Photo by Don Bowers, Jan. 1976 |
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Cape Newenham File Size: 145K Photo by Don Bowers, Feb. 1978 |
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Cape Romanzof, Alaska File Size: 72K Photo by Don Bowers, Jan. 1978 |
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About the Photographer |
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Don Bowers Firebird Pilot 1975 - 1978 |
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Until his death on Mt. McKinley, June 21, 2000, Don Bowers lived at Montana Creek, Alaska, in a cabin he built himself. Born in 1948 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Don was an Air Force Academy graduate with masters degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology and Alaska Pacific University. For most of his Air Force career he was a C-130 Hercules transport pilot, flying Hurricane Hunters in the Caribbean and Spectre gunships in Southeast Asia as well as "trash haulers" all over Alaska with the 17th Tactical Airlift Squadron Firebirds. Don arrived on the Last Frontier in 1975 and became involved with the Iditarod as a member of the volunteer Iditarod Air Force. Upon retirement from the "real" Air Force, Don set about to run the Iditarod with his own team, even though he had virtually no experience as a musher. He was a certified elementary teacher as well as chief pilot at Hudson Air Service in Talkeetna during the summer. Don authored the Alaska Airmen's Logbook for Alaska, Northwest Canada, and Russia, published by the Alaska Airmen's Association. Don wrote a book about his experiences as a musher in Alaska entitled "Back of the Pack." To order a copy go to theAlaska Outdoors Development Corporation home page. |
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