Few adventurers have ever gone missing in the Joshua Tree National Park Wilderness Area, & lived to tell us their story. How does one become so hopelessly lost? The answer to that question is revealed here in this true tale of despair, & perseverance. From the onset of this ill-fated walkabout, you will see what the author sees, & feel what he feels as, step by step, his precarious situation becomes increasingly desperate. Heaton is not likely to make it out of the desert alive, but you will find yourself hoping against hope that he does.
Author
Kevin Heaton lives and writes in Yucca Valley, Ca. His work has appeared in dozens of print and online journals including: Guernica, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, The Adroit Journal, and Raleigh Review, (search: Kevin Heaton Poems) and has been selected as Best of the net. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. In 2019, Kevin became hopelessly lost in the California Hi-Desert and lived to write about it. In 2022, he released his personal memoir of that experience entitled: "Where's Chuckawalla Bill's Cabin?" More recently, in 2025, he released his second memoir entitled: "OPAL: Spirit of a Woman."
