On Stones

The Wallowas seems to be a collection of little biomes that are all competing to see who's most efficient at completely pulverizing a multi-acre block of solid granite.

There was SO MUCH FUCKIN' GRANITE. Trees growing on a house-sized chunk of granite and using their roots to slow-motion karate-chop it in half. Steep hillsides covered with a thick tumble of roughly car-tire-sized boulders. Slides of slightly smaller rocks with pikas living in them and making smoke detector low-battery "PEEP" noises as you hike past. Granite rocks on the lake bottom that you can hop between if you don't feel like stepping in the muck. Meadows grown on sand and silt that are probably made of totally obliterated granite washed down from above.

Anyway it rocked lol