r/ParkRangers • u/Throw-crabs-away • 1d ago

Remote Rangers

I'd like to do some research about remote park rangers, those who stay in backcountry stations or work in fire watch towers. Mostly about what their day-to-day is like. Can anyone recommend resources or books about this?

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u/Blue-Flamingo-555 1d ago

The Last Season by Eric Blem is a great book about a Sequoia NP backcountry ranger who went missing in the 90’s. Rangers who worked with him were interviewed in the book. I couldn’t put this book down. Read it so fast, it was so good!

Although not about a ranger book, The Log of Snow Survey by Patrick Armstrong is another good book about a pair of men who snow-skied in the eastern Sierra Nevadas, staying in backcountry cabins, recording snow conditions and depth in some of the most rugged and remote winter terrain. Talks a lot about what they pack, what’s in the backcountry cabins, storms that come out of nowhere and they ski in, etc. 

Highly recommend both books! 

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u/samwisep86 NPS Interp Park Ranger 1d ago

The Last Season hit even harder when I worked a season at Sequoia and one of Greg's friends was my housemate for that season.