The Lost Mine Trail

This trail head was 30 miles from our campsite. It’s just incredible how vast Big Bend is and how it changes in elevation. This area was much cooler and breezier and had many more trees.

The views were stunning almost from the start.

We didn’t know that some of these rocks way up high would be our destination.

It was up, up, up until we gained 1100 feet in elevation.

Very early in the hike we began finding these huge rocks that we could climb. Our boys would have loved all this as kids (maybe even as adults)!

The higher we went the more and more mountains and valleys became visible in the distance.

Is this really Texas?

This seems like the top, but there’s more.

Kristi’s favorite rock formation in the whole park.

This is the top, we made it. There was no mine. It is still lost.

Jerry urged me to go out on this rock for a picture. I didn’t think he was taking the picture just yet!

I did it. My whole body was shaking when he took this picture. The boys would’ve been proud of mom for this one.

This is the same rock after Jerry joined me. Look at those views down below.

The park is supposed to be a bird watcher’s paradise. This is literally one of the first birds we experienced. A little bluebird.

We met a nice family from Louisiana on the way down and took each others pictures. We found that many people we talked to said the same thing – why have we never come here before now?