ep203 One Million Years Ago

Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill, pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions.

Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. Oh, there, boys and girls. Today's story is one that ought to keep you guessing right up to the very end.

It did us. I know that. We were all involved in it one way or another, Stompy and Gray Wolf and even Hint me. It was one of those times when you absolutely can't believe what you see and can't believe what you hear, and you end up wondering what to believe.

It all happened not so very long ago out in the state of Utah in what is called the Badlands. The Badlands is the name the earliest explorers gave to this part of our country. Because it was just exactly that bad.

Just rocks and bare windswept mountains, and sand and dust, no water or hardly any, and many few trees and bushes. A miserable place no matter how you look at it. But that's where this adventure took place.

I call it, one million years ago. A million years. A million years. That's what they are. A million years old. Watch. What? Where? Oh, Morgan, the cliff. The cliff over there. The most perfect cliff in the world. Hundreds of feet high.

Nearly a mile long. And almost perfectly flat. Straight up and down, smooth, greyish, white rock. Get the idea, Morgan. Get the idea? No, well, no. I can't say I do. Maybe you better go over it again, slow.