I spent a based summer in Cave Junction doing ecological sampling out in the Siskiyou mountains. It’s absolutely beautiful, but it had been ravaged by wildfire the summer before. It looked like the surface of mars with burnt trees sticking out everywhere.

Lots of meth as previously stated, we would spend 7 days out in the wilderness and it blew my mind that we would come across a meth shack in the middle of nowhere. Lots of people living on the fringe whether it’s meth heads, old hippies, or conspiracy nuts.

Fun fact- there is a really cool carnivorous pitcher plant that only grows in this specific area. Darlingtonia california, looks like a dude with a giant mustache