On Sunday, we headed out to Sinks Canyon State Park (future dinky job opportunity?) to see what all the fuss was about. The Sinks and the Rise are interesting and rather mysterious geologic features: the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie (don't ask for a pronunciation lesson, I have not a clue) River flows into the Sinks, a narrow underground cave that has never been seen by human nor mapped at all, and rises again a quarter of a mile downstream at the aptly named Rise, a calm pool of water home to tame trout. It takes several HOURS for the water to flow that quarter of a mile-implying a very complicated set of unground passges through which that water must pass), and not all of it makes it to the Rise. They dyed it a few years back to see, and some of that water was never seen again (my bet is that some rancher 50 miles away was very surprised when blue water showed up in his wells). It is, undeniably, pretty cool, and the mysteries of the world continue to inspire ghost stories and Land of the Lost (the 90s one!) type myths...