I am climbing in Red Rock and hiking in Zion or Joshua Tree over the next week. If nothing is heard from me ever again, it’s because I’ve fallen off a multipitch route while trying to rappel for the first time ever.

If that happens maybe some glamorous CSI person in Vegas will try to make sense of a helmeted skeleton lying next to some frayed nylon rope at the bottom of a rockface.

Well, actually they never seem to go after the trivially easy cases on that show..