Comments on: So You Want My Job: Red Bus Jammer

By: Owen Cole

Owen Cole — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:31:33 +0000

I really do enjoy reading this section I’ve stumbled across. Im a 14 year old kid and it is very insightful towards where my future career might take me.

By: Dale Nothey

Dale Nothey — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:24:32 +0000

I am semi retired and have always wanted to go to Glacier and be Red Jammer driver, can anyone tell me the pay scale and how much you can save for a full season.

By: Doug #79

Doug #79 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:42:48 +0000

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

PJK — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:06:47 +0000

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

Jason Wood — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:54:46 +0000

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

Bill Schuler — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:26:21 +0000

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

Elmer Gaudet — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:05:42 +0000

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.

By: Elmer Gaudet

Elmer Gaudet — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:02:21 +0000

Excellent article! I too was a 21 year old jammer in 1959 during dental school driving Red Bus #84. The manager of transport was Lyle McMullin,a fine gentleman. This was truely a magical time and the most fantastic summer of my life. I am excited about returning to Glacier September 8,9&10, 2010 to the Gearjammers reunion at East Glacier Lodge to celebrate the 100th year of Glacier and the 1959 jammers 51 reunion. I have traveled worldwide and I have not seen anyplace more beautiful than Glacier. I too had the oportunity to hike the beautiful backcountry. I highly recommend if you can get a jammer job, take it. It will be the best experience of your lifetime. My favorite drive was Going to the Sun Highway. Too bad we can not live on Logan Pass. I did scrape my bus on the hairpin turn some 6 miles out of Lake McDonald heading east on Goint to the Sun.
Elmer

By: Melissa Fouch

Melissa Fouch — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:21:40 +0000

I worked as a housekeeper at the Many Glacier Hotel for two Summers in college (’91 & ’92) and it was the most magical experience ever. I loved the Jammers and it was always fun to hang out with them at their dorm. Some of them were musicians and they’d sing and play guitar for us. This article makes me realize its time to plan a trip back to see the Weeping Wall on the Going To The Sun Highway. Aaaaaaaaah, sweet sweet Glacier!

By: Dave Eglsaer

Dave Eglsaer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:40 +0000

I love the article and agree with everything about loving what you do. As Matt’s boss in Glacier however, I will have to remember a few of the comments about long hours when he comes back up here next summer.