When a young Midwesterner leaves home for college in California and adventure with the U.S. Forest Service, he finds a lot more than he bargained for: from catastrophic wildfires to gut-wrenching affairs of the heart; from crewman on cutting edge helicopters and the elite Rouge River Hotshots, to a summer in Berkeley at the height of the hippie craze. Join David Hobbs on this unvarnished autobiographical odyssey as he struggles to find out what life is all about and discover the surprise ending that changes his life completely.