Getting paid to dislodge dangerous boulders overhanging highways might be the coolest job on earth. Something so guttural about setting that much potential energy tumbling down a steep face.  This rock scaling operation was conducted by Caltrans on the main route into the San Bernardino Mountains.

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Here’s a sidedish of backcountry trundling in Allos, France:

 

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