The Last Season (P.S.)
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are beautiful.
Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.
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69 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: May 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good if you like real-life mystery stories
I picked this book off the shelf as a birthday gift for a friend who loves backcountry adventures and turned me on to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, which I read in hardback some years ago. I like the central character in this book better than I...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 16, 2008 Type: User Review |
Way too long and a bummer to boot
I found this book to be tedious and depressing and yet I managed to read the entire thing, wanting to find out what finally happened. Randy Morgenson grew up in an idyllic setting (Yosemite Valley), was raised by caring parents, yet managed to...
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
The Last Season
A winner! Eric Blehm captures the head and heart of Ranger Randy Morgenson, who devoted his entire adult worklife to backcountry rangering. It's as much in the telling of the tale as the tale itself that makes this a great read. Blehm gets into...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
A great book for backpackers
This book would be great to read on a ten-day backpacking trip.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
Reccommended for the Outdoorsy
Eric Blehm's account of the life and subsequent search for NPS Ranger Randy Morgenson is a quality piece journalism, part biography, part mystery. For the most part Blehm accomplished what he sent out to do, but the book would have benefited from...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
The Last Season
The book is an excellent story about one person's love for the Sierra and the special wilderness areas of the National Parks. Eric Blehm has told a page-turning story of an amazingly overlooked, dedicated back country wilderness ranger that takes...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
Sierra Backcountry Ranger Requiem
If you have hiked the High Sierras, no doubt you will love this book! It offers a penetrating look at a 28 year veteran back country ranger in the Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park, who disappeared during his last season. Why would anyone spend...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 25, 2007 Type: User Review |
Captured their world
As a seasonal firefighter and helitack crewman in Sequoia & Kings Canyon NPs from 1977-1980, I encountered some of the backcountry rangers (Randy Morgenson included) on medevacs, re-supply flights, etc. My wife and I still maintain friendships...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Very Good Book
Just finished this book, very good. It would have rated 5 stars for me if it was just a wee bit shorter as it did drag just a tad. I usually don't write reviews but I needed to counter some negative reviews in comparison where people contrasted...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Randy Morgenson - Gentle Giant
Over the last twenty years I have hiked all or most of the John Muir Trail sixteen times from south to north. Between 1987 and 1996 I had the privilege and honor of getting to know Randy on the trail. His friendly kind face at McClure was always...
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5.00/5 |
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