At Ocean Beach earlier this year, around 250 people convened for a Hole Party, at which they dug holes in the sand just for fun. It was a reminder that only humans dig pointless holes; everyone else has a good reason. If you want to know what is in that hole on the side of a trail, what made it, or why it is there, get to know the diggers.
The question of what is in the hole has bedeviled me for as long as I have been taking walks. See, for example, the countless pictures of holes on my phone, which are as photogenic as you’d imagine and mostly annoyingly anonymous. So I recently dove, like Alice, down the rabbit hole that is the subject of holes.
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