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Men For The Mountains

Men For The Mountains by Sid Marty. I was planning to bring this book for the trip to Banff and Jasper but as luck would have it, Amazon delayed the delivery, so I went with Shoalts’ book. I ended up buying it in Banff but read only after the trip.

Marty was a park ranger in Banff and Jasper National Parks for most of his career and his memoir provides many facets of the job of a park ranger through some his own experiences. This includes not only maintaining the trails by cutting trees, fixing fences and signs, but also tracking bears, forest firefighting, rescuing dead bodies in snow and rapids. The book is interspersed with a longing for the simpler past and a distaste for tourist crowds.

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This entry was parsed from an older retrospective post.