Hey there folks, it's been a busy week. Since we left Jake and Lauren's great hospitality in San Fran, we found out: The upper campgrounds at Yosemite get pretty cold at night, and the Valley floor gets absurdly choked with LA-like traffic during peak season; Mammoth Lakes (via the Mono County Health Department) has a foreign travel vaccination clinic; Deep Springs College is alive and well; There is absolutely nothing (except an innocuous sounding company, US Ecology, whose primary business is radioactive waste disposal) along US 95 in Western Nevada into Las Vegas; Southern Utah is beautiful; The Mormons (we suspect it's them, anyway) run a very fine campground at Zion Ponderosa Ranch; The Angel's Landing hike at Zion is only the 2nd most lethal trail in the park, according to official records, though unofficial records
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