My last week in Santa Fe, my last days to climb at White Rock and Diablo Canyon, mountain bike the Dale Ball trails, camp in the middle of Pecos Wilderness, and my friend Amber suggested we coat ourselves in therapeutic mud and soak in an iron-rich spring? Unbelievable…

It’s nearly dark and somewhere, in the growing blackness, an animal is shrieking. I’m hanging from a tiny nub of volcanic rock 75 to 80 feet above the ground...