But that didn't help it much, either.
My back has been bothering me off and on since I started this trip. Before, actually. It's been a whole week now. I hadn't quite been ignoring it, but neither had I let it stop me from doing at least some of the thing I wanted to do.
Today my back won the argument.
I had a nine-mile hike planned for today. I had water, Gatorade, pineapple, two Clif bars, and my book. What more could a girl want? Maybe a cooperative body. I got about a mile into planned hike, and had just started going uphill when my back announced that it was not playing this game any more. I took another Aleve and tried to go on. Nope.
Luckily, there is a lot to do in Big Bend that does not involve walking up vertical slopes. Or any walking at all, really. I went on the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. He was a geologist, and he designed this road for geologists. Nonetheless, I managed to take a picture of something that was not a rock. It's a very pretty prickly pear. Note lack of javelina tooth marks.
This is the Rio Grande. You can tell it's a river because green things grow near it. Like cottonwoods. And apparently algae.
Finally! Some nice sedimentary rocks. I am so sick of volcanics. Here's a bunch of limestone. The left side of the canyon in the picture is the Sierra Ponce. It's in Mexico. The right side is the Mesa de Anguilla. It's in the U.S. Amazingly enough, they look a lot alike. I hear it's fun to raft the Rio through the canyon. Maybe next time I will try it.
Those pictures look amazing. Was it hot though?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure whether hot temperatures or cold temperatures are supposed to help with backs lol
Peace.
It was pretty hot. I think the highs were in the upper 80s. It felt warmer than that, though, since three days earlier I had been in a land that sort-of knows what winter is like. But it was definitely warm enough that I can't imagine anyone going to Big Bend on purpose during the summer.
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