Just one park? Sorry. It was a combination of factors including limited time and car problems. But, of course I came up with some interesting photos. Here they are:
Hiking through a wash brings unpredictable scenes. It may be flat and easy as you see above. I may be odd and interesting as you see in the middle. I could also be mind-numbingly boring (although I try to avoid those). Or it could be impassible.Hiking through a wash brings unpredictable scenes. It may be flat and easy as you see above. I may be odd and interesting as you see in the middle. I could also be mind-numbingly boring (although I try to avoid those). Or it could be impassible.Enter a captionNot me! I ain’t goin’ down there. I might manage to slide and splash into the water, but the exit on the other side from a 5-foot pool looked impossible. I assume that this deepest of tinajas is Ernst Tinaja. I hope you’ll forgive me for failing to show you what lies beyond.Ow! That stings. But it’s probably from an ordinary thorn. I got plenty of them on this trip. Of all the deserts I have visited the Chihuahuan Desert has the most and the worst thorns – by far. Oh, what I endure to bring you these shots!The Sierra del Carmen mountains (in Mexico) are pretty impressive by themselves, but the addition of the Rio Grande makes this an impressive view, IMHO.The river runs through thisSam and Nena Nail made a home here for a while here in the difficult land. It could not have been easy.Rocks are usually pretty boring, but there are some fascinating exceptions.I come from Minnesota, where everyone knows that Green Giant vegetables come “from the valley of the jolly – ho, ho, ho” Green Giant near the city of Le Seur. But few Minnesotans know that he takes time off during the winter to visit places down south. While hiking off trail, I was thrilled to get a glimpse him leaning against a rock formation called a chimney. It was a highlight of the trip that I will always cherish.One of about 20 javelinas traveling on along a trail they made. They didn’t have much interest in me; I felt so rejected.Can you see a 6-act play here, as I do?The Rio Grande continues across its course through the desert to the Gulf of MexicoThe Mariscal Canyon Trail offers quite a few relatively high views over flat desert with mountains in the background. This is just one of them.From a semi-high vantage point I and see across and down a valley to the mountains beyondMariscal Canyon is a pretty impressive canyon, but its wall are so steep that it’s almost impossible to see the bottom. This is one of few places to do so.Intense colors appear shortly before my primitive campsite on the Rio Grane. Eat your heart out from your expensive hotel room in some big city! I’ll rest content.A series of tinajas leads to “the” Ernst Tinaja. But look at the rock formations on either side! I don’t know what to say.
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