Backpacker – August 2019

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PHOTOS BY TK

Af ter squeezing through narrow chasms on the

2-mile Slot Canyon Trail in California’s

Anza- Borrego Deser t State Park, set up camp on

the rim as the stars fall before your eyes. (For

timing info on summer ’s best meteor shower, see

page 100.) Contact bit.do/anza-borrego

At these dark-sky destinations,

the stars are out of this world.

By William M. Rochfort, Jr.

AUSTIN TRIGG