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Big Bend Summer 2009 – Day 3 We awoke to a cloudy with some light rain and heavy overcast in the Chisos and decided to hike the desert while the weather kept the temperature down. It was our plan to park on the Burro Spring Pouroff Rd. and hike west to Burro Spring, and continue […]
Big Bend Summer 2009 – Day 2 We awoke to a partly cloudy morning , a cool 70 deg and on my way to the restroom, I ran into DJ with a pot of coffee. We chatted for a minute and promised to catch up later. Had a quick breakfast of S&E tacos and readied
Big Bend Summer Trip 2009 – Day 1 –LGK and I have been planning a summer trip for quite some time and finally put it together last week. The plan was simple… Camp in the Basin, do a couple of days of day hikes as a warmup, and then do Laguna West, Upper Cattail, and
After a cool, pleasant night, I awoke on Big Bend Sierra Quemada – Day 4 with a nagging throb in my left knee, and knew that the final leg into Mule Ears and my truck was going to hurt. 800 mg of Ibuprofen washed down with a quart of water, 2 Pop tarts, and we were
Big Bend Sierra Quemada – Day 3 – After a fitful nights sleep we awoke to a glorious morning. Cool but not cold with the sun breaking over the Quemadas to the SE. Because we knew that to stick to our plan, and try to make up some lost mileage, we only briefly climbed the
Big Bend Sierra Quemada – Day 2 began after a pleasant night’s sleep and counting satellites and shooting stars in a cloudless sky. We knew that today would be a tough hike…. mostly off trail in the wash above Smoky Spring and then off trail up over Jack’s Pass and down again to Dominguez Spring.The