2020 Winter Camping Trip Day30, 2020/12/25
First day in the Big Bend National Park, we had a big day hike. 18 miles with 3600 feet elevation change. First we planned to hike up to Emory Peak, which was 10 miles, but we ended up hiking more.
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| Emory Peak |
I loved hiking in the Big Bend. Now it is a very different view from Arizona. The mountains in Texas are more brown and rocky at the top. The shape at the top are more rectangular and straight up to the sky. Trails are built in the area with great view. Sometimes it is on the ridge looking down mountains below and in the distance, sometimes in the valley looking up in the mountains. 18 miles were long, but almost non-stopping view was had!
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| Rim Trail |
In Big Bend, there are a number of backcounty campsites. Especially East Rim campsites, we found them with great view. In 2020 the availability is limited, since at least half of them were closed due to COVID. For sure some time we need to go back for backpacking. Another cool thing was I was able to see Mexico. In the right picture, for example, the mountain range in the distance is in Mexico. I knew that US and Mexico are next each other, but seeing it was kind of exciting. It looked like that a lot of mountains in Mexico as well.
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| Evening Light |
In the evening the orange sunlight reflected on the mountains: it was really beautiful! This day we went to a different campground: Rio Grande Village campground. Rio Grande means river Grande in Mexican and actually the river is the border between US and Mexico. The campground capacity was limited due to COVID. It looked like more than half was closed due to COVID. It was good. The campground was huge, probably 100 campsites, but 50 were open and all opened ones were occupied. It seemed that everyone was on vacation on Christmas. The majority of people had RV, and us tent campers were minority.
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