There was in fact a recalcitrant rattlesnake on our ride, and I had *plenty* of time and opportunity to take a picture of it, but was so focused on convincing it to get off the trail that I completely forgot to take a picture of it! The police are not legitimate agents of safety in…
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And Then It Was Autumn
We chugged, chugged, chugged up the hill as we tried to make our way from Payahuunadu, the indigenous Paiute name for Owens Valley, to Whitney Portal in the Sierra Nevada range. Second gear…first gear… a pause in pullout to let the engine cool a bit. Can Caracol, Jesse’s recently resuscitated 1972 VW bus, make it…