![]() ![]() Philip Connors has spent 17 summers as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest. ![]() He kept on learning as he kept on re-upping for one more season, then another and another, amassing a lifetime’s worth of insight, contemplation and appreciation. He knew a fair bit about the outdoors before beginning, from his Minnesota upbringing, and learned even more on the job. So, when an opportunity presented itself for him to spend half a year in a fire tower in remotest New Mexico, he dropped his reportorial gig at the Wall Street Journal and headed southwest. ![]() But his true love was the outdoors, particularly the remote outdoors. Philip Connors tried his hand at a number of jobs and did pretty well. ![]()
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