mescale

Updated: May 14, 2025

"About eight days," he said soberly. The next morning we descended from Madulce abruptly by a dirt trail, almost perpendicular until we slid into a cañon of sage-brush and quail, of mescale cactus and the fierce dry heat of sun-baked shale. "Is it any hotter than this on the desert?" we inquired. Wes looked on us with pity. "This is plumb arctic," said he.

Stewart Edward White - The Mountains