THE PORTAL HUB - Pinzgauers, Haflingers, Volvo 303s and more!

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

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.

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

Big Bend is very warm.

ablank - does you device also take and send pix?

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.

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!

man that is cool. i need.

We're back safe and sound and worn out.

It takes a while to sort through 800 images. . Should have them up tonight

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.

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

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

great photos, looks like a lot of fun.