Three Sheets to the Wind

Comparing his progression through life to the erratic gait of a drunken sailor Gropman recounts his life at sea on a three-masted schooner then proceeds to the story of two years in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) during the 1930s. Working in the forests of coastal Oregon and then on the slopes of snow and ice covered mountains in Montana's Glacier Park he tells the gripping story of fighting a leaping crown fire in the forest near St. Mary's Lake. These early adventures are followed by his escapade when picked up as a hitch-hiker by a man driving a stolen car.