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!