A Tour of Texas - Hiking Big Bend & Mexican Border Roadtrip
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Join me for a tour of Texas, from the Gulf of Mexico to a hike in Big Bend NP, via a cruise along the Mexican boarder. www.sintax77.com
For this adventure, I’ll be travelling (via air) from Philadelphia to San Antonio, Texas in mid-May. After landing, the plan will be to grab a rental car and immediately travel 7 hours west, following a route along the Mexican boarder, to Big Bend National Park. Big Bend holds the distinction as America’s largest protected swath of Chihuahuan desert. Another of Big Bend’s unique distinctions is that around 118 miles of the Mexican / American boarder lay within it’s boundaries, hugging the deepest point of the Rio Grande.
My plan is to arrive at Big Bend National Park before sunset on day one and make a mad scramble for the Window Trail, which is said to boast some amazing sunset views across the Chisos Mountains. Assuming I pull this off, my next task will be to awake just before that burning globe comes back around again, and make way for the tallest peak amongst the Chisos Range - Emory Peak. After that - a quick retreat to the car, a modest rehydration and clean up, and then it will time to hop back in the rental car once again.
Just to keep thing interesting, my plan will be to take an alternate 7 hour route, further to the north, to return to San Antonio. At that point, I’ll scoop up Sara and head an additional 3 hours west to the Gulf of Mexico. More specifically, the Corpus Christi region, for some beach front camping, which would be a first for us.
Of course, all of these plans assume that everything goes as expected. I mean, they never get unexpected or sever weather on the Gulf Coast, do they? Wait… do they?
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This was one long Sin-Chats episode with a day hike, a windy beach, and a very un-Sintax'esque ending... still enjoyed it.
Adventure knows no schedule. Adventure is where you find it. Adventure is what you make of it. Your films keep getting better and better.
Another hugely enjoyable video from Sintax! This one is perfect in that we get the solo experience (personally my favorite genre of your videos because we feel like we are with you, instead of watching you with others), but then we get Sara and you clowning around together as well!
I agree with what was said about the solo trip reports, I enjoy them the most.
First off I have been watching your videos for over a year now and am never disappointed. Second Kudos on you and Sarah for making best out of your trip despite weather, limited time, many miles to cover in a "clown car" and border patrol. Also, not sure if you know this channel but Adventure Archives uses the same type of music as you did when you were in the peak. I dig it! Lastly, I'm a flight attendant for Frontier Airlines and appreciate your use of our company. (We are making Philly one of our new bases within the next couple months. So more cheap flights out of Philadelphia :) )
What a great trip!
The addition of the music really upped the experience. Thanks for taking us along!
Welcome to Texas, son. Always have lots of water and enjoy our mountains and wildlife.
The Big Bend area has a lot of great trails. Star watching is SUPER good there.
That, my friend, was intense! Thanks for bringing us along.
One of your best, good sir.
Thanks, man. Glad you enjoyed it!
I have to tell you that this is by far the best video you have ever edited and taken. Your other ones are good but this one seemed you really put together very well, even more so than normal.
Amazing that you did Emory Peak and Padre Island in such a short amount of time. Not to mention the flight from Philly, car rental, food, gas ect... drive from San Antonio. You are an inspiration to us all.
This video showed how far you've came with editing your videos! The views, music, commentary, everything was brilliant. Always love living vicariously through you sintax when its to cold to get out in the woods!
As a Texan and Big Bend enthusiast, I can't wrap my head around driving all the way out there and then cutting the time short to visit the gulf coast (yikes!). I enjoyed the video but it broke my heart a little seeing you rush through so much vast beauty. I implore you to come back and at least visit Santa Elena canyon.
Great video! As a lifelong hiker who got into backpacking last year, I stumbled across your channel and was hooked. You have saved me time, money and aggravation, plus your vids are all very entertaining. Thanks Sintax (and Sara)! Keep up the great work!
Incredible job on this video! The music and cuts are really next level!
I've hiked Emory Peak twice, the flowers and humming birds were so abundant. I saw my first wild bears up close on the Pinnacles part of the trail near the shale piles right below the Maples. What a beautiful serene part of the country.
Awesome vid Sintax- you just keep outdoing yourself! Thanks for sharing!
As far as production and editing, this is by far the best video you've done yet. Nice work man!
Thanks, Splitar. I put some extra time into this one, so that's nice to hear :)
Two of my favorite places to go in my home state! Awesome video... glad to see someone showing that Texas isn't just flat and ugly. Keep it up!
Great video man. The scenery was absolutely amazing. I liked the epic music at the summit. I always enjoy your hikes. Cheers.
You did a great job with the editing! I enjoyed watching this road trip adventure. It may not have worked out for camping with the full campground and nasty storm at the beach. It still looked like you and then Sara had a good time. Awesome sunset and views from the summit. I like how you have been making other types of videos and not only backpacking. Although the backpacking videos are still my favorite! Excellent Video!!
Update: My wife just watched this video and now wants us to plan for a future Texas trip!
Nice! You should definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Absolutely stunning views at the peak. If you're inclined to be near Corpus again go to the other side of the bay to Ingleside. Just a short dive and then ferry ride away is Port A. I always choose that in lieu of Padre. Go ahead and take the clown car on the beach there. The sand is hard and you'll be fine. I drive 15 hours straight through from here just to see the sun rise over the Gulf. You got me itchin' now !!!
Thanks for taking me to Texas with ya........beautiful scenery ! Had a great time...... :)
This is awesome. Really makes me want to get out past the Mississippi. Maybe someday...when I'm past having a college student budget! This is by far, the best backpacking channel on RUclips! Thanks for bringing us along!
One of my favorites so far, lmao! The whole mess was sublime. One liners..talking to that bird, I spit my drink out. Love your stuff, hiking some of your vw trails, keep it coming.
Great video, music selection is fantastic and probably your best video production and editing wise yet
Loved this: '' Remember kids, don't feed the wildlife, just make them jealous about what you had for breakfast!'' heheheh
What a whirlwind trip man!!! Thanks for taking us along. Looking forward to seeing the vids about your upcoming winter trips.
Awesome trip, I live @ 12 hrs from Big Ben. I'm adding this to the trip list. Thanks for sharing, glad y'all were safe in the storm.
This was the quintessential road trip. Loved it. Thanks!
Not at all what I was expecting (Texas) quite beautiful. You guys rocked that motel room!!! Great video, Thanks
I love that hike. I remember feeling so wild scrambling up those rocks, only to watch a pack of mules do it with replacement batteries for the comm towers. See you got to experience the Swifts. They're amazing up there. Hiking to and camping at the South Rim is also a great thing to do there. Can't wait to go back.
Great video! Most memorable one I've seen yet! Loved the suspense of whether or not you were going to make sunset and rise! And then the music you put over your success made me feel like I was there! Bravo!
I'm not sure how I missed this one back at first posting, but RUclips popped it up in my suggestions and I made sure to watch it right away. Nice job. Great editing on this one.
Dude your edit skills are on point. This was a nice way to mix your vids up a little bit. Your a monster when it comes to road trips!
Glad you came out to Texas! Man I'm not sure if it's just cause Texas is my home, but this is one of my favorites and I've been watching a long time, the music and footage worked so well together. Good job man.
The first part of the trip looked great and you are right, Texas is quite lush and beautiful in the fall and winter.
A shame that Galveston was a bit too windy, to enjoy the coast.
Dude the way you edited that video was great! Thanks for your time and shared experience! looking forward to the next one!!
Enjoyed this video Sintax! Im always looking forward to seeing your next adventure.
Even though ya'll were rained out of beach camping...Still looked like an awesome adventure/trip!!
Oh yes, it's Christmas once again.
Thank you for the video.
You crack me up. Having moved to Arizona from Long Island I totally get the boarder patrol anxiety when going through it for the first time. Great video on the trip.
Beautiful. Love my home state of Texas. Glad you were able to travel some of it even it the short amount of time. Another great video!
You didn't mention it, but you passed by a very famous town. Langtry, Texas was the home of Judge Roy Bean, "The Law West of the Pecos". Named the town after the woman of his dreams, Lily Langtry. She never visited there in his lifetime, but did get there shortly after his death. They even made the story into a movie starring Paul Newman. :-) Great job editing, and I'm glad you got a chance to visit and backpack in the (arguably) most picturesque part of my home state. For a more woodsy experience you can always come back and hike the Lone Star Hiking Trail. Enjoyed this adventure quite a bit.
Nice video. My fear of heights kicked in just watching you make that final climb. :)
SHEE-IT! THAT'S SOME HARD TRAVELING. We were @ Big Bend this past Feb. Sintax, I'm longtime follower, first time caller. Can't get over how hard you guys roll. Like Iceland in 66 hrs? You and Sara are Hard Core! Be safe....
Making the best of it all... Loved it. Thanks...
Your channel inspired me to "have fun out there". So last year I got to the top of Washington and a few other of the presidential peaks in NH plus I got out to Utah for Canyonlands and Arches. I booked my trip to Big Bend 2 weeks ago so I was glad to see you post this video. I'll be flying from Boston to El Paso on Super Bowl Sunday. I'll have a shorter drive than yours but totally looking forward to my first adventure for 2017. Thanks for all the helpful camping/backpacking information, I'm not sure I would have gotten out there without the Sintax77 channel!
AWESOME! THANK YOU AGAIN! BEAUTIFUL VIDEOS AS ALWAYS! SCENERY WAS OUTSTANDING TOO! GLAD YOU DIDN'T RUN INTO A COUGAR ETC! YOU FOLKS ALWAYS MAKE IT LOOK LIKE FUN! GOD BLESS YOU BOTH ALWAYS! ENJOYED!
Absolutely loved your trip!!!! Next time you are at Corpus stay at the Sand Castle on Mustang Island. Great access to the beach! Or ------- if weather permits you can camp on the beach!!!!! You two looked like you had a great time anyway! Thanks for the awesome video!!!
Your editing just keeps getting better! Awesome job! I like your road trips, so don't be shy about doing more of them. You can make car camping with day hikes look good in the right NP. If you like the desert check out Joshua Tree in the spring or fall. Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks, Patrick. My next couple vids (Iceland and Ireland) are actually kind of hybrid hiking / road trip travel vids as well, so hopefully people will still enjoy them. I'm also filming two overnight backpacking trips in the very near future, so i may stagger them with those as well, for varieties sake.
Another excellent video, really enjoyed the background music. Thanks for sharing sintax77!!
Well done on the gr8 video! Was really looking forward to this one and it didnt disappoint. Great job! All the best from South Africa!
That was a hell of a trip!
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Great video felt somehow more adventurous and freeing. Stay spontaneous , positive, and hiking.
Thanks for Visiting my state Syntax, you rock.
I liked the addition of the music in this one.
Love that gorgeous view! Beautiful video! You sure capture some amazing views and scenery in your vids! Keep up the great work! Glad your out enjoying God's beautiful backyard and capturing it for us all! God bless you and Sara!
I think I suggested this at one point or another. glad you got to go.
Nice, my home state! Looked like a really fun trip! Great editing too!
Nicely timed episode. I was just in BBNP last week for a backpacking loop in the Chisos Mountains (South Rim Loop). Can't wait to see your perspective on our beautiful and giant state!
Great vid, love the way you showed the mountains. Dave.
Thanks for another video. I used to live west of there in El Paso when I was a kid and now I'm in boring ol' Ohio. Your one reason I got into hiking and one reason it has cost me thousands of dollars in hiking gear. ;-) Kidding aside, I really have to thank you about your Dolly Sods video. Your video got me to go there and it was very cool. Hike on!
I had a similar experience with glowing eyes but I was in Zion. I was hiking the canyon overlook trail and when I got to the part that goes through the small cave I looked up to see two eyes staring at me. My heart sunk, thinking it was a mountain lion and I was in deep trouble. After a second I realized it was a bighorn sheep just lying down, not scared at all of me. It was quite remarkable to get so close, I was within 15 ft and I went around him while he just watched me. On the way back I saw another bighorn sheep, this one was with a baby though.
Excellent Video Looks like you all had a good time And you had a real hell of a road trip to boot Also wanted to say the editing is really great very creative looks your really getting the hang of your software and enjoying it Thanks for sharing
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I put some more After Effects work into this one, just to try and keep the car dialogue scenes a little more interesting, so that's nice to hear.
Awesome to see you guys doing hiking in different areas of the world. Looking forward to your Iceland video.
Thanks, Iceland is what I'm working on now! :D
Very cool. Really enjoy your out of the ordinary trips.
Hope you enjoyed your visit to God's Country. We TEXAN's enjoy ya'll visiting! Big Bend is an awesome place. You should have checked out the Hill Country just west of San Antonio too!
My very first backpacking trip was the loop above the Chisos Basin. Thanks so much for the video!
I agree could have spent some time at Lost maples. The hill country is amazing.
Thanks for showing the rock scramble at the top of Emory Peak! My Husband and I are planning another trip out there now that the "no back country camping due to bears" ban has been lifted.
Also glad you didn't find any Javelina out there in the dark!!
Lisa Halamka yeah I'd rather run into a mountain lion then a Javelina. Those fuckers are aggressive! Cougar attacks are incredibly rare.
Ugh, yeah - Javelina sound like bad news, indeed. I didn't realize that had recently banned backcountry camping, but I'm glad to hear it's been lifted so you can get on with your trip. Enjoy it!
I envy your making it to Emory Peak. I've been out there 3 out of the last four years, intending to hike to Emory Peak. Couldn't get my daughter out of bed early enough to get started on one trip, then fiance was too afraid to hike it on another. If you ever make it back, drive the Presidio Highway (TX Hwy 170) from Terlingua to Presidio through the Big Bend Ranch State Park, about 70 mile trip. It is by far more beautiful that the National Park. I love Big Bend, but the mountains miles apart in the park, where on the Highway, the mountains are right next to each other. I've always taken my motorcycle, it will always by far the most beautiful and fun ride for me. Next time I get out to Big Bend, I will get to the top of Emory Peak, even if I have to go alone!
You should have a show! Beautiful views and great content
Great video. I have been to Big Bend many times. Lived in Odessa,Texas and would go 3 or 4 times a year. I have done the car camping some but love the camping alone the trails best. Parents use to take me there back in the 60's when I was a baby ( to young to remember, but have pictures ). They use to have a huge cable across the window because some people got to close to the edge. You need to bring Sara back with you when you can stay longer and do some of the other trails. They are all so beautiful. The South Rim trail is fun to do. Thanks for the video. Brought back good memories.
MrKelso159 👍👍Awesome!!
That's awesome. It seems like there's a so much to see down there, but I'm glad i was able to get at least a small sample of it. I would really like to go back with Sara some day, so I'm those Texas flights on my radar for sure!
It's funny that you posted this video. Just last week I was checking out the laguna meadows trail and blue creek canyon trail online. Being from the northeast, I thought a trip here would be something of a different variety. After watching this, I'm making plans for next winter!
Very cool. You should definitely check it out, i really enjoyed it.
I don't know why it has taken me so long to watch this video. I enjoyed it for the fact that you attacked it even when the odds were against you. GJ!
+Mrblackvac4 Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was a ton of fun to film and edit this one.
I hiked in Big Bend a couple of times in the early 1980's. Not enough black bears and mountain lions there back then to warrant warning signs and bear boxes. Good to see their numbers have increased. It is a beautiful park, and lots of beautiful places to see in Texas. Good tip on the water. We were in the park in January and March. It could get warm then. I can just imagine how warm it is in May. hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.....
This is a great video awesome job on the editing. I have to get out of the north east and get out west for more hiking. Keep up the good work
Cracking video mate! That was some road trip. I think I would've bottled that last section of that climb though. Shame about the weather at the end, but a least you had a good time. Always enjoy your films as I see parts of the US I haven't seen before. Like the inclusion of the road trip etc as it is indeed part of the adventure. Looking foward to the next one.
Was in Bend once just missed a flash flood, it was scary. Been in West Colorado many years, never seen a flood. Seen videos of a flood in canyons I frequent. Omg, Water 20 feet above the trail!!! I had no clue. Never stop exploring but please take care.
Another great vid! Your video and editing skills are getting a lot better, not that there was anything wrong with them before. I don't envy the drive through Texas, but Big Bend has been on my list for a while. Almost went out there twice last year, but other places sucked me in.
Love the video. Sick shots in Big Bend
Amazing work putting this together!!!
Thanks, HAL!
Stepping up the video editing, very nice!
I had no idea there was that kind of terrain in Texas! Been there many times, but never further South or West than San Antonio. Thanks for enlightening me! I'm enjoying watching you evolve your video production skills. Just keeps getting better. I especially enjoyed your music selection @ 30 and 43 mins. Your music or something you found? Keep up the great work! I'm hoping to get out again soon and make some wildlife jealous of my breakfast too...
Some nice 3rd classing, there. Beautiful!
Hi, Shawn 👍🏻👍🏻 Awesome hiking adventure to Big Bend, amazing sunset and climb up Emory Peak to the summit to see the sunrise and amazing views, beautiful scenery along the way. The wind was really blowing at the beach I’m you and Sara had a great time, also I know you get ask a lot about what video camera are you using to film your hiking adventures. Thanks for sharing, enjoy and have a Great Friday !!! I’m going to watch your Iceland adventure later on Friday night !!! Thanks Danny
What a great little trip. You and Sara are a good couple; you got to see some special things, and still made the best of your beach trip. I've almost watched all of your videos now, and I've watched a few more than once. As I have said before, I am not a backpacker, but your vids have encouraged me to buy a little portable saw to use at my cedar chalet in the Smokies to cut up some of the wood from fallen trees just lying around the yard, instead of buying it all, because I do love my roaring wood fire in my big stone fireplace, in the cabin of course! As I have enjoyed your videos so much, and they are so out of character for me, I'd love to support your trips in some small way. Have you thought of opening a Patreon account as so many of the you tube music commenters have done? That way I, and others, could sign up to donate as little as $5 to $10 a month toward your adventures, and after awhile, this could mount up. Think about it.
Really cool video once again! I really enjoy watching your videos, great job!
Thanks, Dylan. Glad you enjoyed t!
You take tough to a whole new level.
Great vid! Thank you for sharing your experience! When climbing does anyone know what song was used?
Mr. Pineapple yum!Another great video.
Great views. I've only hiked the ADK so for. looking to do whites in the summer. loved seeing a completely different landscape!👊🍻
30:50 Heroic stuff so far Sintax, Good Lad ! 👍
Awesome video, Thanks for coming to my home sate.
At the end when you two were in the hotel in Corpus you were cooking hot dogs😀 You always talk about having a cheeseburger. Just below the hotel on screen is a Whataburger. I hope you tried one. Texas’ gift the the cheeseburger world.
Really enjoyed this video, I watch these with my wife, hoping to get her interested ! Headed to Rocky Mountain National Park this fall, business trip combo!!
Holy Sh!t... I'd never make it around that cliff wall... no way!
Thank you so much for sharing..!!
Gorgeous Views and awesome video.
I car camp all over Turtle Island (where settlers call the US) and then backpack on trails if I decide to stop. That's the best way, so no worries about car camping. When you have to make time, we do what we have to do. They still beat dirty motels.
You sir are badass! I've done the beach camping on mustang island and it was mind blowing, can't wait to go to the big bend though. Hats off to you for putting together a great video.
Thanks, we really wanted to check the beach camping off of our to-do list, but that weather - wow. One of these days though!
Ya that sucks. hopefully you'll make a video of it when you do it. I really liked your commentary and the editing. if you're looking for another spot to camp in Texas check out Enchanted rock.
awesome trip, thanks for sharing