There is a metal plaque bolted to a rock, miles from civilization, in the unspoiled grandeur at the top of Donahue Pass at 11,000 feet on the border between the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park. The plaque lists all the things you are not allowed to do on the Yosemite side of the sign – the regulations in effect in the middle of nowhere.

I stood aghast, and when I had recovered, I took a photograph to capture the absurdity of it all.