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TR-Guadalupe Mountains National Park camping and (canceled) backpacking-April 2025

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Camping and backpacking at Dog Canyon campground; heavy snow made the backpacking impossible

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Planning

This trip was supposed to go something like this: camp at Dog Canyon campground then a long day hike followed by a rest and packing day, then an overnight backpack to Blue Ridge backcountry site, one of only 3 I haven’t backpacked to yet. Another goal was to hike the Marcus trail and the far northwestern section of the Bush Mountain trail, neither which I’d ever done. I had five days at Dog Canyon CG reserved and backcountry permit for Blue Ridge on Saturday night, April 5. 

Map of trails in Guadalupe Mountains National Park-northern section. Bush Mountain trail between Blue Ridge junction and the Marcus backcountry site, and the Marcus trail between Bush Mountain junction to and Blue Ridge junction are two trail sections I hadn’t done.
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TR- BBNP, BBRSP (partially canceled)-January 2025

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This was planned for a couple of days a Paint Gap 3, then on to Big Bend Ranch State Park/Fresno Vista, for three more days.

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Trip Report

Not much to report here; I’d booked two nights at Paint Gap 3 (formerly Paint Gap 4, note the name change) to be followed by three more over at Fresno Vista in Big Bend Ranch State Park. I’ve stayed at both of these spots many times.

So things on this trip didn’t end up as planned, in many ways. But that’s o.k.–what’s the saying, “a bad night in the backcountry is better than a good day at work”? Yeah, I know that’s not it but whatever.

Things started roughly, out of Austin. As I was checking the air in my tires before departing I discovered a sheet metal screw in the tire. I went down the street to a local shop and got it repaired quickly. Fortunately it wasn’t too close to the sidewall.

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