Big Bend Treffen - June 11th to 14th

andy · Post by **andy** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:57 pm

Wish I was goin'. Bill B is gonna stop by and I should be around until at least noon if not longer. Stop by if ya get a chance.

Andy

texas pinzgauer · Post by **texas pinzgauer** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:47 pm

We're going to hit the road around 5:30 so we'll probably be in the Comstock area sometime after lunch. I'll call and email you from the road and see if we can swing by. Worst case, we're plan to meet up face to face on the way back.

andy · Post by **andy** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:59 pm

Looking forward to it, but on the way back I many not have made it back from the Valley yet from building fence. Email call whatever trips your trigger and we'll work it out.

Andy

ablank · Post by **ablank** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:29 pm

Big Bend is very warm.

ka · Post by ka » Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:43 pm

ablank - does you device also take and send pix?

ablank · Post by **ablank** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:46 pm

No, the device I'm using is a SPOT personal satellite tracker, all it does it upload your GPS position, and send OK, Help and 911 messages. But it's great for family that worries when you're out of cell range.

russ · Post by **russ** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:36 pm

ablank wrote:For anyone interested, you can view our progress from Houston to Big Bend through the park and back via this link

http://tinyurl.com/nqtmff

There's no info yet, but tomorrow morning it'll start showing us moving (slowly).

Very cool, I think the new Car Czar requires that on all new automobiles, especially military types.

Erik, tossing a beer your way as well as the spoon to stir it up!

ka · Post by ka » Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:56 pm

man that is cool. i need.

ablank · Post by **ablank** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:49 pm

We're back safe and sound and worn out.

andy · Post by **andy** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:48 pm

ablank · Post by **ablank** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:00 pm

It takes a while to sort through 800 images.

. Should have them up tonight

texas pinzgauer · Post by **texas pinzgauer** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:21 pm

Adam Blank took a bunch more photos than I did but here's the first batch.

These are from Big Bend National Park.
http://picasaweb.google.com/david.k.smi ... feat=email#

These are from Big Bend Ranch State Park.
http://picasaweb.google.com/david.k.smi ... feat=email#

Bill Burge and his wife Kathy and their son Drew joined us and Adam Blank and my buddy Danny Bynum joined me in my Pinz. While there were only two vehicles, that didn't seem to matter and it certainly enabled us to move along at a tempo we were happy with.

There were a lot of details and things we learned from this outing and probably the most useful tidbit is that we will not be doing this trip in June again as the mid day temps were just out of control. I've been to the Big Bend region dozens of times and it was just too harsh this time of year.

Another observation is that we should probably break the trip up into one that will be BBNP specific and one in which we will focus on the BBRSP trails exclusively.

This is a spectacular area and there's much more terrain to explore in both parks so we'll have lots of terrain to consider for future outing.

When the video is all assembled, we'll post that as well.

ablank · Post by **ablank** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:27 am

Finally done cleaning up pics, so here ya go. Video is coming up next.

http://gallery.12thfloor.com/gallery2/v ... gBendPinz/

dr4yrk9 · Post by **dr4yrk9** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:55 am

great photos, looks like a lot of fun.