MythBusters Filming In Desolation Canyon

[tallsteve]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24815454&nid...cid=featured-2

Intriguing. Love Mythbusters! Can't wait for the new season to begin.

[Rob L]

The video to which your link refers shows them filming on a bloody great runway.

I consider myself a crazy builder, but how did someone construct a flat, level and smooth 5000 foot long, 150 foot wide runway down Desolation Canyon?

That's some myth!

[Alex]

My friends were staying in the same hotel as those two and asked them about the filming, sadly they wouldn't reveal the "mystery".

[Byron]

They're there to test if snakes and scorpions will actually crawl into a sleeping bag.

[rockgremlin]

They're there to test if snakes and scorpions will actually crawl into a sleeping bag.

OOO!! I hope that's the myth that's being tested. I have an irrational fear of sleeping outdoors under the stars without a tent or other covering overhead -- especially in the desert -- for fear of scorpions and spiders/tarantulas. Dates back to when I was in high school and I slept outdoors one night in my back yard. I could feel bugs (probably spiders) crawling on my arms. I awoke the next morning to a huge fat lip from some sort of insect bite (probably a spider --- what else?)

[Byron]

I actually sleep out a majority of the time. I'll only carry a tent if bad weather or big wind is forecast. I've slept out more than a thousand nights, and never had anything bite or crawl on me.

I have woken up the next morning on a few occasions to find a scorpion in my hiking boot. The snake thing though, I think would be very, very rare. Funny how the old timers have "tricks" like a horsehair rope around the camp to keep them out...

There are places however, that you'd be a fool to sleep out. Like in some parts of northern Mexico. I heard that the scorpions (the nasty small ones) can be so thick that they've counted dozens in one square meter. Yuk!