A branch of the sky fifty years of adventure, tragedy, and restoration in Sierra Nevada by Steve Sorensen. [Carlsbad, CA: Published by Picacho, copyright 2018.]. 21.7x14 cm, pp. [1-7] 8-281 [282-308] [309-311: blank] [312: colophon], 25 illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, perfect bound. First edition, but probably a later printing. "The day he finished high school in 1967, Steve Sorensen began a fifty-year adventure in the southern Sierra Nevada. After learning to rock climb in Yosemite Valley, Sorensen went on to spend fourteen years working for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, where he became the leader of a backcountry crew, a skilled tree faller, an emergency medical technician, a wildland firefighter, a backcountry snow surveyor, and a mule packer. Working with park botanists, he developed new techniques for restoring damaged backcountry meadows, and his crews rehabilitated miles of eroded trails throughout the parks. Later he wrote the first two hiking guidebooks for the parks' frontcountry trails [DAY HIKING KINGS CANYON ... (1992) and DAY HIKING SEQUOIA ... (1996)]" (publisher's description). Trade paperback format. A print on demand book. A fine copy. (#167950).
Printed "13 December 2021" on colophon page.