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SPRING 2017 ISSUE 01 / VOL. 02
Main: Wildhorse Lake, orphaned by a glacier and lost in time, as viewed from the summit of The Steens. Inset: The historic Cressler & Bonner building, downtown Cedarville.
Quick, you experienced touring rider out there, arise and identify the largest physical feature of the American West. The Rocky Mountains you say? Sorry, Larry. Take your seat. Think of the Great Basin and 210,000 square miles of six western states. Cogitate upon a vast region of the West where all the drainage runs down to the convoluted bed of an ancient inland sea the size of several European countries.
I’ ve lived here in Big Valley in northeast California about 60 miles from the western edge of the Great Basin for 21 or 22 years now, I’ ve lost count, a good thing I think. What you are about to read, written just for you by your aging Rider founder, was a ride I’ d been anticipating for years. At last, finally, coming to my senses that life is indeed short, I called my master lensman friend Dominic