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Voni
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One does wade across in the knee deep. Or one hires a mehicano to carry one on his back. Or one takes a ride in a ferry which is actually a shell of an aluminum row boat with a couple of guys on each side pushing you across.........
The cantina has Mexican beer which must be imported from Texas or floated downstream? One can pull your truck in the river and a couple of boys will give it a wash. Ol guys hawking "handmade" stuff.........Yes, a true bit of the touch of Mexico when visiting Cottonwood Campground in BBNP...........
What is really a shame is that one can no longer camp in the back country and float the river, hike, or ride the great roads.........Good ol banditos are watching from their side of the river for you to leave............Great place, just hard times............God bless the USA.......Dennis
What is really a shame is that one can no longer camp in the back country and float the river, hike, or ride the great roads.........
Good ol banditos are watching from their side of the river for you to leave............Great place, just hard times............God bless the USA.......Dennis
People camp the back country every day. And people raft or canoe the river every day the water is suitable. The river tour companies are alive and well. This isn't Jaurez. It's Bouqillas, a village of maybe 25 buildings 160 miles by dirt path from the nearest paved road.
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Paul, certainly not to dispute your local knowledge; but just a different point of view. Having been a floater/camper ON THE RIVER for perhaps 35 years for weeks at a time, one has to accept that things HAVE changed.......Yes, when floating from Santa Elena to Boquillas one comes across MANY traces of habitation. Whether it is a burro trail, cane hut, or an adobe structure, folks have been crossing this area for various economic reasons/migrations for centuries.........Google, Commanche MOON................
Anyway, cadellia gathering/harvesting is still a common problem, as is the warning by rangers when camping along the river in "back country" situations to not leaving camp unguarded.......This has been a totally common problem to leave camp, go up river, put in, float Mariscal, come back to camp just below the canyon, and find LOTS of stuff gone..........It has just been getting worse.........
Yes.........there is LOTS of back country for camping AWAY from the river that does NOT have this problem....the park is HUGE........But to say it is safe and secure to camp ALONG the river is perhaps ignoring the true situation............
Yes, the "float companies" are in business and one sees them heading out every morning..........What I am discussing is the folks who truly stay in the back country for weeks/days at a time..........Big Bend is fantastic for just this type of a stay.........NO PEOPLE OR their disturbing YOUR peace..........Dennis
People camp the back country every day. And people raft or canoe the river every day the water is suitable. The river tour companies are alive and well. This isn't Jaurez. It's Bouqillas, a village of maybe 25 buildings 160 miles by dirt path from the nearest paved road.
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Paul, certainly not to dispute your local knowledge; but just a different point of view. Having been a floater/camper ON THE RIVER for perhaps 35 years for weeks at a time, one has to accept that things HAVE changed.......Yes, when floating from Santa Elena to Boquillas one comes across MANY traces of habitation. Whether it is a burro trail, cane hut, or an adobe structure, folks have been crossing this area for various economic reasons/migrations for centuries.........Google, Commanche MOON................
Anyway, cadellia gathering/harvesting is still a common problem, as is the warning by rangers when camping along the river in "back country" situations to not leaving camp unguarded.......This has been a totally common problem to leave camp, go up river, put in, float Mariscal, come back to camp just below the canyon, and find LOTS of stuff gone..........It has just been getting worse.........
Yes.........there is LOTS of back country for camping AWAY from the river that does NOT have this problem....the park is HUGE........But to say it is safe and secure to camp ALONG the river is perhaps ignoring the true situation............
Yes, the "float companies" are in business and one sees them heading out every morning..........What I am discussing is the folks who truly stay in the back country for weeks/days at a time..........Big Bend is fantastic for just this type of a stay.........NO PEOPLE OR their disturbing YOUR peace..........Dennis
Well Dennis, I guess I shall simply cede to you your vastly superior local knowledge of the place where I live. You are entitled to live with as much fear as you have been taught to have. I choose not to live that way.
but I have camped at Black Dike, Glenn Spring, Rice Tank, Earnst Tinaja, Hannold Draw and Nine Point Draw and the solitude and grandeur of the night sky viewed from these vantage points is unimaginable except to those who have been there - am I right?
You are right! Amazing night skies. And daylight vistas. Priceless!
Voni
sMiling
My wife & I camped in Big Bend park & were down @ the water too-it was a feeble joke!Get real. Check out Google Earth. This is a tiny village with very little access to the rest of Mexico. It was a crime to isolate them. It is fitting to have the crossing open. They don't seem themselves as Mexican so much as Big Benders.
You probably could wade across. No drama there.
Voni
My wife & I camped in Big Bend park & were down @ the water too-it was a feeble joke!
Sorry. I get hypersensitive about this because it seems there is a pervasive urging in our culture to make us afraid. I've not had one bad experience in the Big Bend other than with cactus and other prickly things.
Cautious, yes. Life is scary. But please base your caution on facts.
Over and out.
Voni
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Actually,I ride Mexico and entering @ Eagle Pass is the plan for this trip, 1st of March.