Yosemite Search and Rescue: The Mafia Years

Yosemite Search and Rescue: The Mafia Years

Over four million people a year visit Yosemite National Park and most have a safe park experience…. but some will find themselves in great danger, often hurt, and some will die. Veteran, now retired, Park Ranger Tim Setnicka in his second book,explains what it was like to be involved in these rescue situations in 1970’s...including what happened when a plane load of tons of marijuana crashed into a remote Yosemite lake in the middle of winter... With more than 150 color photographs, taken during the actual rescues, he describes in detail 33 different operations and their particular hazards and difficulties. Each situation is accompanied with actual rescue photographs taken during rescues. These rescue images will shout out at you from the pages.