Big Bend July 16-18

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I'll get more info on this trip out later but I can say for example, if you have a tow rig, a wife's Yukon or want to tow a 40 down....hell even a 2wd Pilot we will make it happen.

Get with someone else going and ride along or take your family and
 
Nolan what date did you call? I doubt I will have a rig by then the way things are going.....if Rob puts a 4inch lift on my camry I may show up.
 
SHUSH said:
Beautiful shots...that gravemarker shot gives me chills (creepy and appreciative ones!)
Click to expand...

The cemetery is not so bad when it's dark other than needing to be careful not to step on or otherwise disrespect a gravesite. The only ghost I've ever seen there was during the day around mid morning :eek: :) The weird metal art just down the road is a lot more creepy than the cemetery.

Wanna hear the story? Of course you do. Everyone likes a good ghost story.

:popcorn:

Ok... so I'm photographing the cemetery one morning. FYI, it's not the best place to photograph during the day. It loses it's eeriness. I packed my gear up in my pickup (didn't have the LC back then) and was sitting there with the truck running, looking at a map. The cemetery was to my leftt. For whatever reason, before I drove off I looked over my left shoulder, across the cemetery, and toward the small canyon that the cemetery is next to. And... there was this dark skinned guy (probably Mexican / Hispanic / whatever the proper term is. My cuñado says Mexican... He should know), standing on the edge of the canyon, wearing a sombrero, bright colored serape, and he had a guitar slung across his back. His clothes looked like they were from the 1800's which is the earliest mining period there. He was looking to the west over the canyon. Just standing there. He was not moving. You would think a photographer would have grabbed his or her camera and at least snapped a shot... but noooo... I don't even get a cool t-shirt for what I saw much less a picture. The gear was stowed and I just drove off. Now here's the odd part. I literally turned 180° as I drove away so that as I drove away he would have been on my right and at about 45°... except he was gone. It probably didn't take but a couple of seconds to turn the truck around and 1/2 of that I was looking where the guy was standing. The canyon walls drop off very steeply so if he went down that way he probably hurt himself. Also... I photographed all over that cemetery. I looked up when cars went by, checked out the canyon he was looking into before I saw him... I never saw him when I was in the cemetery.

Locals say that it was either a ghost or a musician from the Starlight Theater that had a little too much something and crashed in the cemetery the night before. No idea where that could have been though.

Google the Mansion at Terlingua.. It's a kind of cool place to stay. The Starlight Theater is hit or miss on food but every now and then some people show up and the music is pretty good. The locals are colorful, to put it mildly. They say the weird from Austin move to Terlingua because Austin isn't weird enough but idk about all that... Die de los Muertos is a one of the events that happen that that I would like to see but haven't.

Daylight shot of the cemetery

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The Mansion (and yes I've stayed there)

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Ham operators

Google BIBARC (Big Bend Amateur Radio Club). They have linked repeaters all over area. Elephant Mountain covers the approach to the park. Christmas Mountain aka the Terlingua Repeater works just about everywhere EXCEPT the River Road. Which is kind of a bummer...

Mike (NE5U)
 
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