OK - "Hole in the Rock Road" just outside of Escalante, Ut. Was kinna rushing to get back to a paved road, as the rains/storms were coming in fast.... This place is in the middle of NOWHERE and you really don't want to be on this road during/after a rainstorm!! Had a little too much water that afternoon, so I stopped to relieve myself alongside the road. It was so quiet - just the wind, and even that sounded like it was whispering...... then ..... BAM !!! A lightening bolt hit on the rise just North of me... There was NO delay from strike to thunder - it was immediate, and deafening! Now, I'm not going to tell you that it was like peeing on an electric fence, cuz it wasn't anywhere near that, but ...... I did jump about 4 feet straight in the air ! All I wanted to do was get the hell out of there.... right after I took a picture. 
If you'll look on the face of the bluff to the left of the photograph, you can see where the bolt hit a tree and lit it up... A small smoke trail gives it away. It's almost 1/2way up the photograph on the lighter bluff.. The rains were just starting over there, so there was no chance of a fire, but - damn!! I laughed all the way out to the highway......
