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Where was the last place you went on vacation?

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DaiMonMoore said:
Yes, an amazing experience. I did it when I was 28 years old. Not sure my close to 50 year knees could take the descent. Me and a friend camped next to there Colorado for 2 nights. The extra day was great to recover and also went on a long hike along the river.
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Coming back up was an SOB and I was in pretty good shape at the time. I was good until after the Indian village, that last stretch of the dark angel trail with those switch backs were hell.
 
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DaiMonMoore said:
Yes, an amazing experience. I did it when I was 28 years old. Not sure my close to 50 year knees could take the descent. Me and a friend camped next to there Colorado for 2 nights. The extra day was great to recover and also went on a long hike along the river.
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I want to do that as well. But for now, next on my list will be the 4 hour drive down to the border and see Santa Elean Canyon on the Rio Grande

in Winter months, the River is typically so low you can walk into Mexico without even getting your boots wet.

this is a screenshot from Google Maps.
Mexico on the left, Texas on the right.


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on the Texas side, there is a trail that heads a half mile or so into the canyon
(looking deeper into Canyon)
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(looking back out)
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Plus there are several other spots along the highway with river access points

(random access point Looking across the Rio into Mexico)

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Nutriaitch said:
I want to do that as well. But for now, next on my list will be the 4 hour drive down to the border and see Santa Elean Canyon on the Rio Grande

in Winter months, the River is typically so low you can walk into Mexico without even getting your boots wet.

this is a screenshot from Google Maps.
Mexico on the left, Texas on the right.


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on the Texas side, there is a trail that heads a half mile or so into the canyon
(looking deeper into Canyon)
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(looking back out)
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Plus there are several other spots along the highway with river access points

(random access point Looking across the Rio into Mexico)

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Looks like where the movie broken arrow was filmed lol
 
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I highly recommend Big Bend. After covid and seeing all of these national parks being overrun with tourists, I've made a point to visit the less-visited national parks and it's been well worth it. First did Big Bend, then Guadalupe, White Sands, Carlsbad, and then Black Canyon of the Gunnison last year. During spring break may go with my daughter to Capitol Reef in Utah.

Big Bend was the best of those. When I went, the ferry service to the Mexico side was closed due to covid. Not sure if they have restarted it. I went in May so it got too hot during the day, but other than that it was perfect.
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Wife's family has lodge about five miles from Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Every time we visit, have a family reunion there (south side). Northside gets the tourists, as between Delta and Montrose. Very beautiful. The Western slope of Colorado has some magnificent visages. If you're in that area, Ouray is outstanding. It's worth the time to go to the Hot Springs there. About five 'spots' in the pool, they put in cold water to cool down the water. We honeymooned in Telluride, which is about an hour from the lodge. Simply driving to the top of one of the mesas there for a picnic is gorgeous. Going to the 'less traveled' areas is a brilliant idea. PS, from the lodge, we drive north from Paonia to the Colorado River. Have taken family up there to river raft. River has different temperatures, when an offshoot snowmelt river empties into the Colorado. Colorado is the land of the $500 car, and the $5,000 bike.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
The landscape is beautiful but yeah, it's full of loons. Have you been to Bisbee? Superior? Showlow?
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Unfortunately no. I have not travelled much south of Phoenix - just once in Tucson. Have been more times than I can remember to Grand Canyon (hiked to bottom but will never visit it again due to crowds), hiked to Havasu Canyon, been to Monument Valley 3 times, Canyon de Chelly twice, Petrified Forest twice - that's about it.
 
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DaiMonMoore said:
Unfortunately no. I have not travelled much south of Phoenix - just once in Tucson. Have been more times than I can remember to Grand Canyon (hiked to bottom but will never visit it again due to crowds), hiked to Havasu Canyon, been to Monument Valley 3 times, Canyon de Chelly twice, Petrified Forest twice - that's about it.
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The area southeast of Tucson is breathtaking. Benson, Tombstone Sierra Vista...

I hiked to the bottom of the grand canyon when I was like 17. I still have the picture for proof. I wasn't in as good as shape as I should have been, this was about 3 months after a surgery for a hernia. During my recovery time I laid in bed and ate Reese's peanut butter cups. I went from a greyhound to the Michilin man

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DubCoffman62 said:
The area southeast of Tucson is breathtaking. Benson, Tombstone Sierra Vista...

I hiked to the bottom of the grand canyon when I was like 17. I still have the picture for proof. I wasn't in as good as shape as I should have been, this was about 3 months after a surgery for a hernia. During my recovery time I laid in bed and ate Reese's peanut butter cups. I went from a greyhound to the Michilin man

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Cool. I went when I was in 28. Did it the same week that me and a friend hiked to Havasu Canyon. It was in March and got lucky with no ice at the top and it was unusually warm in the bottom so I hiked without a sleeping bag - just a foam pad and a couple of sheets. Saved a bunch of pounds I had to carry into the canyon.
 
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