Update

[El Gordo]

This remains my favourite place within RC. The brutal yet beautiful terrain, the colourful characters, descriptions that lure and repel all at once. My romantic heart yearns to run with these wildmen, my realistic brain knows how much it would hurt and how far behind I'd trail. The thought of getting lost out there would keep me up nights. It's heartbreaking to know that people are struggling there. Here in the UK we whine into our smartphones about the 'recession', yet many of us know little of real hardship.

I second Dan's call for a compendium of BB's true tall tales.
I'd buy it.

Agree. Another corker. Fascinating characters and heart-warming human stories, told in a 'voice' that is spot on in its understated way. And now playing out against a crumbling economic/social landscape as well as the spectacular physical one. As others have said, there is a book waiting to bust out of all this, as long as we can all agree on the allocation of royalties....

Great report, BB. Thank you.