5 Desert Myths First-Time Visitors Get Wrong | Wild Bunch Guides

“So… should I be afraid that scorpions will crawl into my shoes at night?” The couple from Michigan looked genuinely terrified as we prepared for their first Sonoran Desert hike. They came wearing long pants tucked into their socks and bringing material about anti-venom that they had gotten off the internet. They were clearly worried about the “deadly desert” they had read about online.

