

Snake Bit in Mearns Country, Arizona
After a 30 hour drive von “Makoshika” (Lakota word for “where the land breaks”), which had the coldest actual temperature on earth on January 1st, 2018 (-45 degrees F, Hettinger, North Dakota), three of us and seven dogs were welcomed to Arizona by blue skies and temperatures in the upper 60’s and lower 70’s. There were delightful views of rolling foothills segregated by brushy canyons leading up to the higher reaches of the snow-swept Santa Rita Mountain Range. For the nex