Latest Posts by humongouscasheaglebagel - Page 6

Lot’s wife’s dog? Nope, she was salt, not rock. The formation has been certified by outside experts to be 100% natural with no signs of tool marks

From the Marufo Vega Trail looking across Texas mountains to the Sierra del Carmen across the Rio Grande

A strangler from one of my backpacking trips. I run a tight ship but I did cover him with rocks! Seriously, though, I’ve run across several of these unmarked graves in the backcountry. The desert can be hot, dry, & unforgiving

There has to be a tree around here somewhere! Or at least a stray acorn or two

From the Sierra del Carmen range in Mexico, mines extracted lead, zinc, and silver starting in the 1890s. In 1910, a 6-mile tramway was built across the Rio Grande to present-day Big Bend National Park, where the ore was unloaded from the iron buckets and freighted by mule-drawn cart to the railroad in Marathon. You can see the ruins of the tramway towers’ concrete footings on the riverbank, and the popular Old Ore Road through the Big Bend backcountry. The iron buckets can also often be seen.

Guadalupe Mts. NP is in Texas but the only vehicular access is via a lengthy drive into New Mexico & back down. Would you believe I once took a route through Roswell & was abducted by aliens? Didn’t think so 😁

The Sierra del Carmen, just across the Rio Grande from Big Bend in Mexico, rise to over 9,000 feet

Performed in an 8.5-acre man-made lake in front of the resort. The show uses 1,214 water nozzles and 4,792 lights. The fountains shoot as high as 460 feet

I’ve belonged to the Sierra Club & other environmental organizations for 40+ years & led more than 70 week-long service projects & backpacking trips in national parks. You might say I’m a tree hugger! Or maybe a yucca & creosote hugger since most of my activities have been in the Texas Trans-Pecos 😀

I have 2 Gretsch guitars & a Takamine classical. I love the sounds of country, rockabilly & classical guitar—well maybe not so much when I make the sounds!