Trail Report: Unlocking Baja’s natural wonders

Trail Report: Unlocking Baja’s natural wonders

I never expected to find myself crouching in a humid mining tunnel, waiting — even hoping! — for a snake to slither its way toward me in the dark. But in late October, on an expedition in Baja California Sur with scientists from the San Diego Natural History Museum, that’s exactly where I was. In many ways, it’s where I was meant to be: I had traveled to the Sierra de las Cacachilas, mountains just outside of La Paz, to join the scientists as th…