Chip Rawlins

Chip Rawlins

Chip Rawlins is the co-author of The Complete Walker IV with Colin Fletcher. He also publishes under the name, C. L. Rawlins .[1] Rawlins is a non-fiction writer, poet, outdoor guide and instructor. Previous jobs include: firefighter, science editor, and field hydrologist.

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Biography

Rawlins was born in Laramie, Wyoming.[2][3] He went to university at Utah State and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[3][4] He lives in Laramie, Wyoming where he has served as president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and on the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He has also lived in New Zealand .[5]

Books

  • A Ceremony on Bare Ground (1985)
  • Sky's Witness: A year in the Wind River Range (Henry Holt, 1993)
  • Broken Country: Mountains and Memory (Henry Holt, 1996)
  • In Gravity National Park (University of Nevada, 1998)
  • The Complete Walker IV (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)

Awards

  • USFS National Primitive Skills Award
  • 1999 Poetry Prize from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association
  • Stegner Fellowship

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