Biography & Autobiography General
Close Calls on High Walls
and other Tales from the Warden Service
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Initial publish date
- May 2005
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894765558
- Publish Date
- May 2005
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Experience life as a park warden in Canada's national parks with Close Calls on High Walls, a moving memoir from a former warden.
The mountains beckon from behind their mantle of clouds.... So pick up your pack and take the Alpenstock in hand. Who knows, in one of those quiet valleys we may even find those candle-flame blazes, where that old Guardian wandered so many years ago.
Close Calls on High Walls captures the stories of park wardens with passion, insight and humour.
About the author
Mike Schintz grew up along the Highwood River in southern Alberta. His career as a warden with the Canadian Parks Service took him from one end of the country to the other: from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, New Brunswick and Ontario to Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands.