Blood, Guts & Tarweed: MTB Dawn Patrol on the Ragged Fringe of Sequoia N.P.

From The Explorer's Guide to Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada, 2nd Edition

Photo by Peter Amend, courtesy VCVB. Click here for full-color gallery.

WE MEET AT MARK HIRNI'S house at 7 AM sharp. The morning is cool, the sun still procrastinating in the depths behind Case Mountain and the Great Western Divide. A rafter of wild turkeys grazes on the neighbor's lawn.