We found a round trip route through the western part of Big Bend Park. Found some great scenery, made notes for some hikes we want to do in the next few days. Didn't do much hiking today because we had Callahan with us and dogs are not allowed on the hiking trails. Tomorrow he gets to spend the day in the camper so we can hike. The one short hike we did was 1.7 miles into Santa Elena Canyon, very narrow gorge in the Rio Grande. 1500' walls above the river, a 3' wide trail going upstream for a short way until it peters out to sheer cliff walls. Pretty impressive. There were the usual many places to stop along the road for scenery photos. Finally a 13 mile rough gravel road to get back out. It would have been a great road, almost up to Maine's Golden Road, except this was so washboarded that it was 10-15 mph instead of 50.
Still cannot post any pictures due to the crappy signal strength.
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