Post from New West ABQ/Santa Fe

Philip Connors has spent eight seasons in a high, isolated outpost as a wilderness lookout in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, the "epicenter of American wildfire," spotting fires for the U.S. Forest Service. How did he become one of the "freaks on the peaks," and why does he love this job? Connors has plenty to say about these and other subjects in the entertaining and informative Fire Season: Field Notes From A Wilderne ...