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Rio Grande Pics

Postby Hitoru » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:55 pm

A few photos Circa 10.12.2009 of the Rio area in Big Bend Nat. Park before my shitty point and shoot broke.

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Postby coldharvest » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:39 pm

I few years back I was looking at buying a place in Study Butte or Terlinga.
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Postby Hitoru » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:09 pm

One of my friends owns and pays taxes on land in Terlingua and has no idea where it is.

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Postby nowonmai » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:41 pm

You've got great training areas for Afghanistan there.
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Postby OneLungMcClung » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:38 am

Hitoru wrote:One of my friends owns and pays taxes on land in Terlingua and has no idea where it is.

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Some of the properties down there are dirt cheap. I found a 500 acre plot for less than my mortgage. Of course, the nearest paved road was something like 20 miles away.
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Re: Rio Grande Pics

Postby redharen » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:14 pm

I've got a few of these sorts of pics too.

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Postby Hitoru » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:25 pm

Did you bother to get a permit to float the rio / Santa Elena Canyon ?

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Re: Rio Grande Pics

Postby Atrax » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:30 pm

Cool pics guys. Reminds me of certain parts of Washington.
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Re: Rio Grande Pics

Postby redharen » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:31 pm

Yeah, we got the permit, but we didn't get to spend much time on the river. Most of it was too shallow to paddle in; the deepest part was in the canyon itself.
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Postby Hitoru » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:24 pm

The river was over the hot springs when we were there in august, but you can see how deep it was a couple of weeks ago by how high it was in the picture of the mexicans walking across.

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Postby redharen » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:34 pm

Speaking of Mexicans walking across...was the "for sale" stuff for the Boquillas school legal? The rangers always warn you about people trying to sell stuff illegally along the river, but I've never seen any of them down there. That stuff sorta looked like it was just sitting out there...do you pay with the honor system or is there someone actually there manning the "shop"?
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Postby Hitoru » Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:03 pm

Nah, that stuff isn't legal, back in August we didn't see anyone but I had a feeling we were being watched. This time the goat herders came across to service the collection(there was nearly $100 in the cup at the Boquillas canyon). I talked to them for a while and ended up trading a cheapo flashlight for a couple of wire scorpions.
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Re: Rio Grande Pics

Postby Chimborazo » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:38 pm

Very cool. Any decent fishing in those parts?
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Postby redharen » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:12 pm

I don't think you'd want to eat anything that came from the Rio Grande. The mud in one of the photos I posted, I'm told, is composed largely of sewage from Juarez.

As an aside, when I was paddling around on that raft, going upstream into Santa Elena Canyon, a bus full of French-speaking tourists dropped a group off by the river, and they proceeded to cover themselves in the mud like they were at a mineral spa. I don't know where they thought they were, but it was amazing.
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Postby Hitoru » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:25 pm

There used to be record sized alligator gar and other edible fish in the rio grande, but alas. The river is now full of every sort of us/mexican farming activity run off after the Juarez sewage.

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