Saturday April 8th
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| Wild pigs in camp |
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| more wild pigs in camp |
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| Morning walk to Mule Ears |
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| Spring on the way to Ears - good for wetting clothing |
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| the closer the less dramatic the ears |
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| S as far as we went |
Out pre-breakfast (S had a hardboiled egg) onto the Mule Ears approach trail - 5 miles. Soaked some clothing in a spring, on the way out and on the way back. Carried on in the car to the Chisos Basin - a shangri-la setting with ho hum utilitarian buildings. Nice restaurant with a somewhat overly formal national park style atmosphere; had the chicken fried steak and loved it.
At a gas station in the park a little later in the 100ยบ heat the attendant ran out as we were pulling out to stop us from ripping out the hose and leaving the credit card - sun stroked probably. Followed that adventure with a visit to a hot spring next to the Rio Grande. 10 people in the river, none that I saw in the hot spring. Been spending quite a bit of time in the river. Back to camp and back in the river.
Camp had got a little louder since yesterday. Also a herd, a herd of 20, of javelinas in the grass under the cottonwoods with us.
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