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Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.

Miller, the Mono Lake Committee’s Eastern Sierra policy director, and Geoff McQuilkin, its executive director, led the way to a burbling spring rimmed by innumerable hoof prints.

“Running rim to rim,” Cronin said, “he’s as fast as any big guy in the country.”

Feel free to follow their “Blue Out” quips with your own rim shot:

They sprawled around the rim of the backyard swimming pool and across the adjacent lawn, their animal-print blankets and beach towels crowded with paper scraps and glue sticks.