With time running short in the season before scorching heat takes over Big Bend, I decided to head back that way. After all, hiking the South Rim can only be an annual tradition of mine if I’ve done it at more than once. But why spend just a weekend in Big Bend if I can spend a whole week? So I booked this place:
Cloudflare Marfa was a remarkably productive office. My backlog over the past few weeks has become well more than knee-deep, but I managed to wrap up a lot this week while squeezing in some time for side quests in the evenings and coffee shops during the days.
Point of Rocks
About ten minutes south west of Fort David is an old waystation along what was a military road from San Antonio to El Paso in the mid/late 1800s. Today, it is a picnic area at the base of a massive boulder pile. In 6th grade, my class did a West Texas field trip and came here for an afternoon of running around. The following year, somehow, my mother found the same place based on my extremely rough description, but wouldn’t let us climb too high.
But she wasn’t here to stop me this time. And Wednesdays are for climbing. 600 foot ascent in total. Lots of fun. Sixth grade me would have thought I’m so cool.
