The Frozen Flats

In Idaho I drove out to find a natural formation known as Crater Rings - two well-defined craters immediately adjacent to one another. Tired of the intense speeds of the trucks on I-84, I took a respite by traveling directly over the frozen dirt roads between empty potato fields. As I went, the sun came up. A herd of pronghorn antelope turned tail and lit out for the mountains, and soon I was instead among their successors, the hefty cows.

I never found the craters. I mean, I found where they were, I just wasn’t confident of driving my sedan up an even rougher road, and I didn’t want to walk a mile in the cold.