Draft:Andrea Lankford

Andrea Lankford is an American author of five books, including Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks and Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail , the latter of which was a New York Times best seller. Lankford is a former National Park Service ranger who spent 12 years in the service as law enforcement and part of Search and rescue (SAR) missions in highly trafficked U.S. national parks, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.