Grayback Forestry

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."  Seasonal crews are prepping now. Apply via the website to the base you're interested in. graybackforestry.com/working-for-gr…  🗣️: Aeschylus

"The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask."  We're hiring for the 2026 season. Join us!  graybackforestry.com/working-for-gr… 🗣️: Nancy Wynne Newhall

May you have the courage to begin; the patience to persist; and the strength to finish. - Michael Bassey Johnson 🔥 Flat Fire  📷 Connor Callahan 👥 13 Bravo John Day

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered. ― Dejan Stojanovic 📷: Joaquin Barragán 🔥: Heppsie Fire, Oregon 👥: Crew 158

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us... - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 📷 Joaquin Barragán 🔥 Heppsie Fire, Oregon 👥 Crew 158

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” ― Sigmund Freud 📷: Mehdi Khairalla 👥: Grayback 13-A, John Day 🔥: Sugar Fire

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 📷: Mehdi Khairalla  🔥: Tacoma Creek Fire, Sugar Fire 👥: 13-A John Day

It's Monday on a mountain. ⛰️ "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity." - John Muir 📷: Joaquin Barragán 🔥: Sunset Fire, Idaho 👥: Crew 158

"It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright." - Stephen King 📷: Cooper Gerhard 🔥: McAllister Fire 👥: Missoula Base 2 Alpha

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. 📷: Connor Callahan  👥: 13 Bravo, John Day 🔥: Moon Complex  🗣️: Emma Smith

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.  Want to learn what you're made of? graybackforestry.com 📷: 2022 fire season 🗣️: Roy T. Bennett

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask. We're recruiting for the 2025 fire season. Learn about working for Grayback on our website and apply to the base you'd like to work out of. loom.ly/v2oYJkc 📷: Qetzal Hogue 🗣️: Nancy Newhall

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. We're hiring for crews at all Grayback bases. Take a look at the website and apply to the base you're most interested in working out of. loom.ly/v2oYJkc 📷 : Jacob Kelley 🗣️ : John Muir

Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform... Interested in joining our summer 2025 fire crews? Visit the website to learn more and apply. loom.ly/v2oYJkc 🗣️: Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

"One has to escape oneself to discover oneself." We're recruiting for the 2025 season. You can apply to the base you're most interested in via our website. graybackforestry.com 🗣️ Rabih Alameddine

Several Grayback crews are in LA to support our agency partners on the Eaton and Palisades Fires. The historic Rose Bowl stadium has been converted to a staging site. If you're looking for a way to support the LA community, visit: loom.ly/qusjKAc

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. 🔥Billie Townsend's Crew, Arizona (2022) 🗣️Robert Louis Stevenson

Two Grayback crews visited the Wildland Firefighter Foundation this fall to honor those we've lost and reflect on the important and often dangerous work we do. Thank you, WFF, for all you do to support wildland firefighters and their families.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. C-158 📷: Chayton Smith 🔥: Steelhead Fire 🗣️: Eleanor Roosevelt

So take me down a road that's a little bit windy... 🎵: Zach Bryan, Hey Driver 📷: Edgar Houghtby