... or Back From The Bend you might say. (click on pics for better view... worked this up mostly from an iPhone using the blogger app which doesn't allow for image resizing as best as I can tell)Camped at the scene of an unsolved murder on the back slopes of Nugent Mountain (Laurence Parent's Death in Big Bend is a can't-put-it-down page turner)...
... and saw amazing sights on an overnight trip to the famed South Rim of the Chisos. That first view will take your breath away...
(please excuse the goofy, breathless commentary in the above YouTube clip)
... as is a sunrise from the cliffs at near the campsite at Southeast Rim #3.
... and great views of one of our favorite Chisos Peaks, Casa Grande.
We got creeped out by a skinny dippin' assault weapon totin', sotol drinkin' loner we met on a late night trip to the Langford hot spring. Cat even stalked us a bit and is probably destined to some day take up a chapter or two in Parent's follow up. Beers were drunk. Ceegars smoked. Whiskey imbibed. And ribeyes and porterhouses consumed.
Nugent Mountain was 'conquered', and the greatest panoramic view of the east side of Big Bend National Park was taken in.
The Nugent summit views of Mexico's Sierra del Carmen were amazing. But will Westex and his camping gang ever summit the ominous Schott Tower, aka "El Pico"?
24 hours after my return Casa Westex looked like this...
3 comments:
Nice self portrait, dude, and great pics. And we got ZERO snow here, sadly.
GREAT PICTURES!! I plan on a much-needed "recharge" trip back to SoCo to get back in the spirit of my blog. You've inspired me with this post.
Sorry to hear about the lack of snow down your way, Danny. We got 5-7 inches in the area. Took a whole week for our snowman to melt!
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