5/12/2023 0 Comments The last season by eric blehm![]() ![]() ![]() ("It was obvious that the cone hadn't fallen far from the pine tree.")ĭana's work had allowed his son to grow up in an extraordinarily inspiring setting. He mourned the death of his father, Dana Morgensen, whose love of nature and job at Yosemite National Park had had a huge effect on his son. Less officially, the once-rhapsodic Morgensen had been saying things like "I don't find much pleasure in the flowers anymore" and "after all these years of being a ranger, I wonder if it's been worth it." Then there were worrisome remarks in letters to friends: "Nothing seems predictable, except pain."Īs The Last Season reveals, in steroid-enhanced versions of points that might shape a magazine article, there were obvious factors contributing to Morgensen's discouragement. ![]() "A hermit thrush broke the alpine silence," he writes about the fateful morning of July 21, 1996, because Morgensen obliged his future biographer by recording the thrush's presence in his official logbook. Regardless of the fair answer to that last question, Blehm has written a book. ![]()
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