Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Audiobook)

from JackieBlem

This is a beautiful book about a rare man with an even rarer summer job--he's one of the last fire spotters in existence. 5 months of the year he leaves civilization behind, drives 40 miles then hikes 5 more (sometimes having to literally crawl through snow on his first trip up in late April) to ...

from GennaC

Connors' casually eloquent journal documents one summer of eight spent watching for puffs of smoke from a tower in the isolated Gila National Forest of New Mexico. Fire Season is an effortless blend of fire lookout anecdotes, history of preservation and prescribed burning in the United States, an...

from Stbalbach

I really enjoyed Fire Season for a number of reasons. First it's well written. Connors is likable, a gritty Everyman from Montanan sensitive to the environment who drinks whiskey while waxing philosophical about mans place in the world, holding court with the ghosts of Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey ...

from JackieBlem

This is a beautiful book about a rare man with an even rarer summer job--he's one of the last fire spotters in existence. 5 months of the year he leaves civilization behind, drives 40 miles then hikes 5 more (sometimes having to literally crawl through snow on his first trip up in late April) to ...

from Randall.Hansen

Really loved this book, part history of the Forest Service and its changing ways of looking at (and dealing with) wildfire, part autobiography of a guy who manned a fire tower in the Gila National Forest for 8 years at the time of writing. (He actually completed 10 years of working the tower.) Th...