About seven miles or so west of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, there is a magnificent trail that I have had the good fortune to have followed on more than one occasion. It proceeds from a wide stand of juniper, cottonwood, and mahogany-barked manzanita, up into a wonderland of towering and oddly shaped sandstone hoodoos in arid, wide-open, desert-like surroundings. It is a climb, cresting, as I recall, at 7,400 feet. When I would hike, I always carried, among other things, a pocket-sized packet of tissue to use when ostomy attention was necessary. On one particular occasion, I was attending to exactly that, just off the trail beside a gnarled old juniper, where I had kicked out with the heal of my boot a small receptacle hole in the sand. Having committed myself to this task and being, consequently, unable to physically move from the spot until I had finished, I suddenly heard a startling sound: a quite recognizable rattle, just five feet away under a stunted sagebrush. A rather large rattlesnake was noisily objecting to my presence. Both of us being equally leery of each other, we remained in place, while I hurriedly completed my emptying activity, and then backed carefully away down upon the trail. He rattled warily a little more, and I made off toward my goal, relieved in more ways than one.
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