A few pics from a trip to Big Bend

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A couple of weeks ago I went out to Big Bend with my boy 4down and his brother. Here's some pics from the trip:

Here's a shot of sunrise at Big Bend

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We decided to hike the South Rim Trail. It's about 13 miles or so round-trip, and the views at the end are amazing. Here's a cool view called The Window from near the beginning of the Laguna Meadows Trail (which leads to the South Rim Trail).

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[JudynTX]

:tu Aweome pics. That's one area of Texas I definitely plan on visiting, but not in the summer.

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Another shot of The Window. Note there is also a cool trail called the Windows Trail completely different from that. I know MannyIsGod posted some cool pics from it a while back, with lots of bears on it. As a side note, there was a 500-600lb black bear, possibly looking for food or employment, in our camp near the beginning of the Window Trail the next morning.

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EDIT: double-post

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First shot of Emory Peak in the morning (I think it's Emory Peak).

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Nice view looking west on the Laguna Meadows Trail

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Check out the color change on the trees. I think this is near where the Laguna Meadows, Colima, and South Rim Trails meet.

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Another shot from the same place

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First view towards the mountains of Mexico, as Jennifer Broome would say (Mexico's way in the distance though)

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We saw tons of deer feeding on trees at the South Rim Trail. Here's one.

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[JudynTX]

^^^ Damn, that deer looks skinny. :(

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I believe this is Santa Elena Canyon in the distance (more on that later)

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Finally made it to the South Rim (what a cool place). I never thought I'd find anything in Texas that could compete with my favorite hikes in Cali, but this is by far one of the coolest views I have ever seen with my own eyes.

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Another shot from the South Rim

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Looking the other direction at the South Rim

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I love the shape of this mountain; it looks like a Smurf's hat.

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I wish I knew the names of these peaks, but I don't know Big Bend that well.

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A cool pic looking southwest from the South Rim. Notice the coyote ears at the top right of the pic!

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Another shot from the same area. Check how bright the lichens on the side of cliff face are!

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Another shot of the bright-ass lichens (and my knee :lol)

This picture does a terrible job conveying the distance down. It's probably 2000-2500 feet down, and anyone who has ever been there can tell you the cliff face is pretty sheer.

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[PM5K]

Did you draw those or take them with the shittiest camera you could find?

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A shot looking down I took sitting on the edge. Those are size 13 boots, ladies.

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Did you draw those or take them with the shittiest camera you could find?

Blow me troll. Nothing I can do about haze in the air.

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Shot of me sitting on the edge of the South Rim

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Another pic of me at the South Rim

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Looking down the cliff

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Looking SE from the South Rim

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Shot looking southwest from the South Rim

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Cool shot of the layer of hardened lava on top of the sedimentary rock at the South Rim

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A bunch of cactus growing right on the edge and down the South Rim.

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[katyon6th]

I thought you were black.

Nice pictures. Looks like it was a gorgeous visit for you.

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Nice pick looking SW from on top of the aforementioned volcanic rock

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I love these views looking down the windows cut into the rock up there

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On the way back to camp, we passed this cool formation. Notice the ubiquitous bright-green lichens you see all over the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend.

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I liked this pic. The formation at the top-left looks like a lion and the cleared-out section of rocks resembles a heart.

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Pretty weird seeing pine trees in Texas :lol

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[Bender]

good pics, in spite of what some posters say...

I've never been there. Thinking about taking my son, before he gets older (teens) and blows me off in favor of his friends...

if I went, I'd probably pack up the m/c and go on two wheels.

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I liked the color in this tree. Too bad the lighting wasn't good

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One more pic from the Laguna Meadows Trail on the way back to camp

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I didn't get any pics of it, but the Chisos Basin campground is the coolest public campground I have ever stayed at; even more impressive than the public campgrounds I have stayed in Yosemite or Sequoia.

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:tu Aweome pics. That's one area of Texas I definitely plan on visiting, but not in the summer.

This is supposed to be the best time of year to visit Big Bend. Even on a pretty sunny day the whole trail was very cool, with a nice breeze. It's all above 5600 feet (the South Rim is something like 7600 feet or so I think), so it's reasonably cool without being so high that you feel the altitude all that much (though you can tell a difference from sea level).

[CosmicCowboy]

Great pictures. I love West Texas.

[JudynTX]

This is supposed to be the best time of year to visit Big Bend. Even on a pretty sunny day the whole trail was very cool, with a nice breeze. It's all above 5600 feet (the South Rim is something like 7600 feet or so I think), so it's reasonably cool without being so high that you feel the altitude all that much (though you can tell a difference from sea level).

Is this your first visit to BB? Damn, Texas is gorgeous.

[baseline bum]

Great pictures. I love West Texas.

Yeah man, plus the area between Presidio and Big Bend is just as nice as the park itself.

[duncan228]

Beautiful pics, thanks for sharing.

[CosmicCowboy]

I have a close group of friends that would go out to a friends families 25,000 acre ranch just north of Marathon every year from the time we were in high school on into our 30's/40's and then started doing it again this year...awesome fun. Catch and ride the ranch horses, hike, hunt, etc.

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A cool pic at sunrise from when we got there

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A cool shot of sunrise at the Chisos Basin

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The deer took this campsite over :lol

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More deer at camp. I bet the black bear we saw here a couple hours earlier wished he would have hung around a bit longer. :lol

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I'm thinking this might be around the Lost Mine Trail, but my memory is hazy

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Another shot in Chisos Basin

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On the road to Santa Elena Canyon. Check the ocotillo in the first pic.

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Ran across this old house under the A-cup. It's in surprisingly good condition for having been abandoned 60 years ago.

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Here's a closer shot of it

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Not too shabby inside, still

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The corral in back

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A pic taken along the road to Santa Elena Canyon

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Check out the mule ears...

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A cool formation near Santa Elena Canyon (visible in the background).

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A small canyon on the way to Santa Elena Canyon.

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Santa Elena Canyon

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A pack of about 7 or 8 javelinas crossed the road in front of us, down near the river.

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Santa Elena Canyon

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Another shot of Santa Elena Canyon, with two big ocotillos in the foreground

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Looking at Mexico, from the Rio Grande. The walls are supposed to be about 1500 feet or so.

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Looking towards Santa Elena Canyon from the Rio Grande

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A shot of me as humanly close to Mexico as one can legally get without a passport.

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Giving the thumbs up standing at the entrance to Santa Elena Canyon

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[Soul_Patch]

If one wanted to go to Big Bend, but really wasnt into the whole hiking thing. Would there be much to do?

Not that i dont want to hike, but it would be difficult taking a 2 year old and wife hiking. I think it could be a cheaper alternative vacation than heading to Wyoming next year.

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My boy 4down standing on top of a boulder in the canyon

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If one wanted to go to Big Bend, but really wasnt into the whole hiking thing. Would there be much to do?

Not that i dont want to hike, but it would be difficult taking a 2 year old and wife hiking. I think it could be a cheaper alternative vacation than heading to Wyoming next year.

The Santa Elena Canyon hike I'm posting pics from is VERY easy. Like 1 out of 10 difficulty, and only about 1.7 miles round-trip. Driving the park is awesome. There's a great dirt road on the west end if you have a 4WD vehicle, and you see tons of wildlife everywhere. You couldn't get the time out of that you'd probably get in Wyoming (without hiking at least), but of maybe the 10-15 national parks I have been too, Big Bend has by far the most wildlife that I have seen.

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A shot of me walking through the canyon

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A shot of me looking up the canyon walls. My friend Ruben has gotten way ahead of us. :lol

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One of the really cool things about Santa Elena Canyon is it was once underwater when there was a giant ocean going through the center of North America. All the rock is sedimentary, and there are tons of fossils in it. You see fossilized shells literally everywhere in the rock.

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A couple of shots on the way back out.

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I think Ruben's trying to hitch a ride up the river. :lol

Looks like it'd be a fun trip.

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Ruben holding the triforce.

[Taco]

Cool pics !!!
Thanks for posting them

[PM5K]

Did you have to give EVERY FUCKING PIC its own post?

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A couple of other pics from earlier in the trip (I didn't want to post them yet without first getting the ok from my friends)

4down surveying the area from on top of the South Rim
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Did you have to give EVERY FUCKING PIC its own post?

Clean the sand out of your vagina. Putting 20 pics per post would just ensure half the people's browsers would crash when loading the page.

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4down and Ruben in the grove of color-changed trees just before the South Rim.

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Here's some shots from the dirt road I was telling Soul_Patch about earlier

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An old hut built in the middle of nowhere on the dirt road.

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A funny sign from a gas station in Study Butte, just outside the park. This would make a good slogan for the political forum.

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A shot of some deer crossing the road somewhere around Alpine

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A mural on the side of a building in Alpine

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It's nice that I'm not the only person with a love of transcendental numbers. :lol

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Elephant Rock, near Marfa I believe.

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La Migra. How are these checkpoints even constitutional?

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A cool shot of an old church in a ghost-town somewhere between Marfa and Presidio. There's a few people who live out there, but lots of the town looked abandoned.

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Shot of the bell tower and the mountain behind it

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The town's name began with an S.

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A shot of 4down and Ruben just past the entrance to the US.

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Too bad you can't get back into the country with just a driver's license anymore. I would have killed to cross into Ojinaga for some tacos.

[Cry Havoc]

So uh, anyone want to see my Hawaii photos? I can post those in their own thread too.

Amazing pics, BB. :)

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So uh, anyone want to see my Hawaii photos? I can post those in their own thread too.

Amazing pics, BB. :)

Vacation pics are always good. For instance, check some of MannyIsGod's threads from Big Bend and Yellowstone,

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A few shots of Fort Leaton, an old trading post built in 1848

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[duncan228]

Elephant Rock is really cool. I've never seen it before.

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This things about 15 feet tall at least

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4down slaving away in the shop

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An ocotillo. By far my favorite non-cannabis plant

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[4down]

4down slaving away in the shop



That place was great. So many artifacts and cool historical stuff.

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The area in and around Big Bend is a lot of fun to just screw around in. It's lots of fun just climbing up these rocks like this.

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4down slaving away in the shop



That place was great. So many artifacts and cool historical stuff.

Yeah, I can't believe no one was there to keep us out of that area. :lol

[marini martini]

Did ya'll go to the hot springs??? Did you see the Donkey Lady in Alpine??? Did you see the Marfa lights???

Great Pics BTW!!!:tu

[baseline bum]

Did ya'll go to the hot springs??? Did you see the Donkey Lady in Alpine??? Did you see the Marfa lights???

Great Pics BTW!!!:tu

Is that like the Donkey Lady in Tijuana?

[baseline bum]

Cool shot of the Rio Grande just outside of Big Bend, near sunset. I love the lighting here.

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[baseline bum]

More shots from the same place

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[baseline bum]

Shot of Ruben and 4down at the spot the previous three photos were taken at (the light's a lot different on this side) :lol

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[marini martini]

Is that like the Donkey Lady in Tijuana?

LoL no!!!:lol She's this cool old weather beaten chick with a big ole Mexican hat, that rides a donkey around town, with all her belongings tied on the back.

[baseline bum]

A couple more shots before the sun went down

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[baseline bum]

A shot by the river

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[katyon6th]

"Donkey lady in Tijuana"

:lmao

[baseline bum]

LoL no!!!:lol She's this cool old weather beaten chick with a big ole Mexican hat, that rides a donkey around town, with all her belongings tied on the back.

Can't say I saw her or the Marfa lights. I didn't even know there was a hot springs down there. So is Marfa essentially a volcano waiting to blow too (like Yellowstone)?

[marini martini]

Can't say I saw her or the Marfa lights. I didn't even know there was a hot springs down there. So is Marfa essentially a volcano waiting to blow too (like Yellowstone)?

You missed the hot springs??? You missed out!!!:toast

Marfa lights are some kinda, unexplained, weird lights that bounce around out in the horizon, when it's dark. We went to see them one night, but they never appeared. IDK, but I think it helps if you drink cactus juice before going out there.:wow

[Twisted_Dawg]

Hey BB, is all that nasty haze from the pollution in Mexico?

[baseline bum]

Hey BB, is all that nasty haze from the pollution in Mexico?

The maquiladoras are more towards El Paso I think. I'm not sure what that haze was.

[Ballcox]

Yeah, you gotta hit the hot springs next time you're there. Just ask one of the park rangers, it's also on the map of Big Bend I believe. It's just natural heated water from under the earth creating nature's hot tub. If you have some mushrooms to drop before that will definitely add to the experience.

Great shots from Big Bend, brings back plenty of memories from going there to hike many times. It's just a beautiful place, hard to appreciate unless you go there in person.

I've also done a float down the Rio Grande where our exit point was just after the point you guys were at near Santa Elena Canyon, the scenery is just amazing when you're floating through that canyon portion surrounded by these huge cliffs, amazing sight. Seeing your pics makes me want to get back there soon!

[benefactor]

Very cool pics. I've gotta head out that way sometime. The farthest I have been west is Big Lake.

[MannyIsGod]

Nice! I'd like to make it out there again. There was a large amount of wildlife to be seen when we went but it was mostly javalinas and deer. When we stopped in the Davis Mts on the way back from Guadalupe Mountain National Park we saw way more wildlife (turkeys, javalinas, deer, skunks, some weird birds etc).

I really really really enjoyed Big Bend though. I want to go back. The bears we saw made the entire trip awesome for me. Its not as magnificent as Yellowstone but its awesome just the same (Yellowstone is probably the most amazing place on Earth I've visited).

You should try to visit Guadalupe Mountains National Park sometime. That place is much smaller but amazing as well.

As for the haze, its sadly a huge problem there now. Some of it is from areas south of the border, but quite a bit of it actually comes from our power plants all over the state. Air patterns carry much of that pollution in that direction.

[Jekka]

I wish that we'd had more time in the park - as it was, we did the hike to the window and did the scenic drive (didn't get out of the car too much with that because of time ... and because the car didn't have AC at the time, so life was more bearable if the car was moving). I definitely want to go back.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4151289479_529866a2ff.jpg

[mookie2001]

As for the haze, its sadly a huge problem there now. Some of it is from areas south of the border, but quite a bit of it actually comes from our power plants all over the state. Air patterns carry much of that pollution in that direction.


the wind moves it, its like a cloud, if you will