Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert.

The moon high in the sky on the kind of night when the brujas turn into coyotes and owls and squawking night jars.

When the desert world comes to life after a long, bright, quiet day.

When, if you are so blessed,

strength, if you are so blessed strange little lights dance in the sky above you

and clusters of

brilliant yellow orbs tumble over the mountain ridge,

hovering just inches above the sandy wash as they tumble ever closer to your campsite.

The witch lights, the fairy lights, the ghost lights, and the spook lights, the Fouffolet, and the Friars lanterns. This is Desert Oracle Radio.

With the soundscapes by red-blue black-silver The The We've got your Mohameder

We've got your Mohamede Desert Roads report for this first weekend of June.

Please make a note of all closures and road conditions that may affect your travel as cell phone service is spotty and unreliable throughout the Mojave wilderness.

You can't count on it.

It's one of the reasons to pay attention when you first lose your signal coming up the grade to

Morango Valley because of the 300,000 or so years that humans have

existed in our current configuration.

Widespread cell phone service has been around in the Mohamed Desert

for approximately seven of those years,

seven out of 300,000.

Zizak's Road is closed due to storm damage and, quote, repeated use,

which is sort of what roads are made for.

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