How to Survive a Superbloom

Plus, the value of quiet, scientists try to ruin bigfoot, hiking fashion, and more

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There’s a reason people pull over to gawk at scenes like this

Shh – listen! Do you hear that? It’s the collective sound of every person in the American Southwest who loves the outdoors grinding their teeth at the onslaught of media coverage of an incoming (or already beginning) wildflower superbloom.

California has a boom-and-bust cycle of rainfall. …