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The Mountains South of Big Bend Are Vaster, Wilder, and Even More Spectacular
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The third or fourth time the van lurches and then sputters to a halt, I begin to wonder whether we’ll make it up the mountain by dark. Around an hour and a half earlier, we had left Boquillas del Carmen, the Mexican village that thousands of Big Bend tourists reach every year by rowboat for enchiladas and cervezas. We’ve gone only ten miles or so in the sweltering Ford, and our destination—the mountain range towering to the east—is another fifty miles on steep roads.Like countless visitors to Big Bend National Park, I had gazed in awe at the Sierra del Carmen, the imposing massif that rises…The post The Mountains South of Big Bend Are Vaster, Wilder, and Even More Spectacular appeared first on Texas Monthly.