Great photos, Larry! I spent a couple of months at 29 Stumps and really liked the High Desert. We'd go bouldering out at Joshua Tree.
That Chuckawalla is impressive and the Roo Rat is cute as a bug's ear.
IP, very well put! I know that I wouldn't want to meet up with a Wolverine. A hunting buddy had his camp destroyed by one several years ago. Everything was torn up and reeked of it's sprayings.
I bought the Inova X5 UV primarily for checking out sleeping bags, boots and clothing of clients on excursions. I found out that the most dangerous place (scorpion-wise) was around the cooking area and the latrine after lights-out.
Which reminds me of a couple of fellahs that went hunting in Mexico. They were up on top of a mountain and one stopped to take a dump and was bit on the rump by a rattlesnake.
His buddy ran down the mountain into the town and found the local doctor's office. The doctor was in the middle of delivering a baby so he told the hunter what to do, "suck as much of the poison out as you can and keep him still, I'll be up there after the baby is delivered."
The hunter ran back up the mountain to his stricken buddy, the bitten buddy asked, "What'd Doc say?"
His exhausted buddy sat down on a rock and said, "Doc said you're gonna die." /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowlaugh.gif
Britt