Big Bend Camping Stats
Working planning doc
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TR-Backpack-GUMO Shumard 11/16/2017
Gaiamaps link CalTopo map I spent most of a week in mid-November (2017) at Guadalupe Mountains National Park (GUMO). Camped 4 days/nights; at Pine Spring CG and in the middle an out/back overnight to the Shumard Canyon backcountry site. I don’t have a *lot* of info to add; i’ve done the El Cap/Overlook trail several…
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Ken Sleight-Seldom Seen Smith
Ken Sleight was an old river runner/desert rat who was the inspiration for Ed Abbey’s character “Seldom Seen Smith” in The Monkey Wrench Gang.” I like that he calls Lake Powell “Lake Foul.” “It was probably foolish and masochistic of me to have hung around and watched it happen. But I just had to. At…
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Martin Litton
Martin Litton was an uncompromising conservationist of the West, and another legendary foe of the Glen Canyon dam. He was the movement’s Jeremiah — the crier in the wilderness who spotted the threats, condemned the desecraters and rallied the leadership to the defining preservation conflicts of the early 1950s through the ’80s. David Brower, who…
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Roger Reisch-GUMO NP
(Pine Springs, TX) Roger E. Reisch, the first employee at Guadalupe Mountains National Park passed away peacefully in Edmond, Oklahoma on Tuesday, February 12, 2013. He was 89. Roger Eugene Reisch was born in the Richmond Heights area of St. Louis, Missouri, on February 6, 1924. He was the second of five children of August…
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Hiking | New Mexico | Places | Trip Reports
TR-Wheeler Peak-New Mexico Highpoint 8/31/97
[Original date August 31, 1997] Trip report from a hike to the summit of Wheeler Peak, the highest point in New Mexico (13,161′) undertaken August 31, 1997. Wheeler Peak is the highest point in New Mexico at 13,161′. The hike to the summit via Bull of the Woods is about 15 miles round trip, and…
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How to store stuff outside your pack
This page has some good advice on and descriptions of ways to attach gear on the outside of your backpack. Sectionhiker.com
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Colin Fletcher
Colin Fletcher Obituary, June 19, 2007, New York Times Chris Townsend Outdoors on Colin Fletcher Thousand Mile Summer Revisited http://colinfletcher.com/memorabilia/ Article from Adventure Journal, May, 2018 Brief interview on “River”
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History of Backpacking Gear
The “History of Gear Project” site is remarkable! This guy has, crudely in some respects, patched together an interesting series of pages and links on the historical roots of most backcountry gear and gear companies today. A lot of this information is not easily found even with today’s wide-reaching search algorithms. From the origins of…
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