The Last Season
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Missing -- The granite womb -- Into the high country -- The search -- After the riots -- Paid in sunsets -- Center stage for the hermit -- Polemonium blues -- Granite and desire -- Bring in the dogs -- The wilderness within -- The range of darkness -- Sermon on the mount -- The devil's advocates -- A missed clue.
Examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada. Over the course of 28 summers in this craggy wilderness, Morgenson became a celebrated ranger in the National Park Service. For Morgenson, who as a young man honed his mountaineering skills in the Himalayas, this was more than a job--it was a calling. He became fiercely devoted to preventing outside forces from encroaching on the wilderness he loved. But over the years, the isolation took its toll, and he grew increasingly estranged from wife and friends. When he went missing without a trace in Kings Canyon National Park, where he had long patrolled, many suspected suicide or foul play. Blehm's reconstruction of a desperate search-and-rescue operation woven with Morgenson's biography takes readers deep into the heart of the High Sierra and into the world of the backcountry rangers.--From publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, 2007, ©2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: xii, 335, 16 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0060583002
9780060583002
9780060583019
0060583010
SUBJECTS
Morgenson, James Randall, -- 1942-1996.
Park rangers -- Biography.
Sequoia National Park (Calif.).
Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.).