Great Times in the Granites
Once our vans pulled up to the Granite Mountains research station, I remember stepping out and taking in the awesome view of the mountains closest to us. The rocky mountains looked like they had been formed by a bunch of boulders falling from the sky, piling onto one another. In the crevasses between the boulders, tenacious shrubs were nestled in, waiting for the next rain to trickle into the cracks. Dark green juniper trees ornamented the mountainside, clustering by a nearby spring like a mini forest. The other side of the research station was flatland, covered in a variety of Opuntias, barrel cacti, and chollas as well as rodent dens and Phainopeplas.
The views couldn't beat the people though. We were filled with a child-like glee when we rushed into the research station to claim our beds and those summer camp vibes never went away. Our family meals at the big table were delicious (shoutout to the master chefs and the grocery queen). Some of my favorite memories are all of us huddling together by the oven, playing games and telling stories, laughing together in a cloud of flurries (in the DESERT), making a snowman and having an impromptu snowball fight (in the DESERT), and watching Alba rig up a mouse trap in 30 seconds. Honorable mention was me finally getting my toilet paper to catch on the NINTH match.
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