Chimneys trail ...400 ft elevation change...4.8 miles roundtrip.....First time to be on this trail
Pictographs
Starlight
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Big Bend National Park - Day Two
The wind was hollowing and it was cold but we were prepared and had a fun filled day. We hiked Santa Elena Canyon in the morning then followed with lunch at Cottonwood campground. In the afternoon we hiked to the Chimneys and then ended the day at Starlight resturant at Terlingua....
Mark and Ruth Schneider
Canoes going upstream into Santa Elena Canyon
Santa Elena trail
Santa Elena Canyon Trail
Let's go that way.....
Sacred Datura blooming in Santa Elena Canyon
What a line-up!
Lunch at Cottonwood picnic area
Golden Fronted Woodpecker
The bare reddish rock formations are "The Chimneys"
This rock formation must have had a major significance for native Americans ...there were pictographs, petrogyphs and grinding holes
These grooved marks were abundant on the rocks... Does anyone know why the native people made these marks? I saw similar marks on the floor of a cave in Lewis Canyon near Pandale, Texas
Grinding hole.... That is solid rock....imagine the years of grinding that it took to wear down a hole in this rock to about 18 inches.
Small natural window in the Chinmeys
Natural Window
Greater Earless lizard
Front porch at Terlingua General Store
Starlight Resturant
Starlight
Starlight Theater
Thumbs up for the live music at Starlight
Starlight
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