In 2000/2001 a band of Shoshone put a sacred enclosure around the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility to prevent its use. They ran a relay around the whole Nevada Test Site: it took two seasons, and planted these poles every mile along their route, topped with the six sacred colors of east, west, north, south, up and down. When the hole was dug for each one, a prayer was said down the hole. I'd like to know what it was-- it's worked so far.

The sun in its north-south journey only looks in the mouth of this hidden valley at sunrise briefly, twice a year.

The whimsical little structure which occupied the background in the 2004 "Fullerton's Claim" now comes to the fore, with Goffs Butte and the caboose of the 1996 "The End of the Line" behind it.