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Completing the Big Bend Outer Mountain Loop – The Dodson Trail Awoken by nature in the Chihuahuan Desert I awoke thirsty in the Chihuahuan Desert in Big Bend National Park to grunting and footsteps outside my tent. I did not hang my food because...

By David Brown I wake long before sunrise for other purposes, I decided it was a good opportunity to check on Capella and the kids. I was camped with friends in a West Texas arroyo on a gravel bed just wide enough for two tents. On either side of us...

garhan@aol.com NUDE BEACHES Arrests for being naked on the sand, anti-nudity warning signs going up at previously unthreatened spots, outright threats of beach closures, social activists making their mark on San Francisco's most well-known clothing...

I had been contemplating a Big Bend trip on my V-Strom 650 since last fall and was ready to go in March but rainy weather and a few other small things added up to keep me from going. So by June I was ready. I had to get to Big Bend to ride some of the...

“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the Corps of Discovery reached the broad estuary of the Columbia River, 20 miles from the coast. Clark’s exhilaration...