This January I rode out to the 12th annual King of the Hammers, apparently “the largest off-road race event in North America.” Held in the OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) area of Johnson Valley, the home base of the festival is a trailer village on Means Dry Lake called “Hammertown.” My grandfather worked for TNT Motorsports in the 80’s, so I grew up going to see Bigfoot and Grave Digger monster truck shows in Kentucky. KOH isn’t quite the same, but it conjures the memory and interests me with its DIY wrenching culture and camaraderie between competitors. The enormous event seems so wrong and horrible for the environment in its use of resources and physical impact to the landscape, but it feels so right at the same time. Follow the dust cloud!