Photo courtesy Rick Barraff.
Ever wonder what it would be like to pound sand 16 hours a day in 100-degree weather? Me neither, but now I know.
Dave Heckman and I just returned from stashing our food, water, and supplies for our July circumnavigation of Death Valley National Park. He swung the pick, and I wielded the shovel, and together we dug about one hole an hour, 38 holes in all. [Please note: we didn’t dig in the national park, which is prohibited. Our stashes were placed along our route, just outside the perimeter of the park.]
We met five years ago at a training camp I was running in Death Valley, and Dave impressed me as guy who doesn’t take himself too seriously and lives on a pretty even keel, without a lot of highs and lows. In time, I also got to see how damn funny he can be.
