The Yak Men emerge from the woods around Arcata on a semi-regular basis, leading a pair of yaks into town. They tell us they prefer living among live trees to life in “dead wood houses.” The yaks have no names, the Yak Men did not offer theirs.
This article appears in Still Having Fun.
http://www.arcataeye.com/2012/03/occupy-ar…
I’ve bumped into one of the guys with his yaks a few times in the sticks while mountain biking. He was nothing short of friendly, and definitely not afraid to speak his peace about the downward spiral of our society and culture. I also pass the house in arcata regularly and have for years, never knew it was his. Never smelled anything. Never saw any disturbances, always thought it was a bright spot of an alternative perspective to the sludge that is business as usual.