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Larry Bigg Wed 30 Oct 2013 20:22:35 No.218148 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>218151 >>218163 >>218792 >>219004

Who else likes the desert?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2013 20:35:02 No.218151 Report

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>>218148
Do cold deserts qualify?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2013 21:16:56 No.218163 Report

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>>218148
Damn. Fuck deserts.
They're nice to look at and take pictures of, maybe even visit.
But God damn, they suck to live in.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2013 22:17:06 No.218190 Report

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Depends on the desert, they're all very different.

Sahara is pretty cool.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Oct 2013 22:52:34 No.218198 Report

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>>218163
I dispute you. Pic related.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 06:42:50 No.218384 Report

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Fuckin love living in the desert. Spent time in places where grass grows buy itself and trees and shit all over. But something about the desert is calming and soothing. Brings a sense of peace.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 06:44:54 No.218385 Report

Quoted By: >>218387 >>222418 >>222422

What are some tips for camping in the desert? I've only really camped forest and coastal.

(´･ω･`)

What sort of tent or other shelter is gud? Lightweight style.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 07:09:58 No.218387 Report

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>>218385
bring really sturdy tent stakes
the ground can be really hard so lightweight aluminum ones are pretty easy to bend beyond repair
prepare to be cold as hell too if it's winter and you don't bring firewood

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 07:35:08 No.218391 Report

Quoted By: >>218397 >>218448

>>218387

Is blown sand a problem? Does it get all over the place when the wind picks up and does it trash lighter tents with abrasion? Just curious as I want to dip into the desert to camp on my cycle tour.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 08:15:44 No.218397 Report

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>>218391
ive never been in a desert where the sand was a real problem, and i've never heard of it messing up a tent either. sand and grit does get everywhere though.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 08:51:58 No.218401 Report

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>>218397

Thanks, I can imagine sand would just naturally get all through everything, as observed in my coastal camping. Aussie desert has that red bulldust all through it which is really fine, I guess there's not much chance of keeping that down #dealwithit.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 11:56:15 No.218438 Report

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I love deserts and I dont know why so many people hate it. Every desert I have been to was beautiful in its own way. I even could think of living there, not as survival of course.

pic not related that was just close to a desert

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 12:11:00 No.218448 Report

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>>218391
Abrasion, not really. But sand getting everywhere, definitely. Sahara's sand especially, it's the smallest sand there is on Earth, and it'll get through your tent's fabric.
One of my goretex softshells was ruined by it, it now sparkles from the tiny bits of sand everywhere inside the fabric, and once it's wet, it's like it turns to mud, and totally lets water through.

Softshells are actually perfectly suited to the Sahara, they're warm enough when it's cold, they provide enough protection from sun so it's a bit cooler inside, and breathable enough so you don't sweat too much. Just give up on using it later on to protect yourself from rain, though it's still good for snow. Because yes, it happens to rain and snow in the Sahara.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 12:17:16 No.218451 Report

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>>218198
> should be heading back to the heart of the Sonora Desert later today. I'll post some OC.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 13:50:55 No.218486 Report

Quoted By: >>218789

>In middle of sandy quarry inna south jersey summer
>feels/ looks like desert
>look beyond the bounds of the quarry and see the familiar cedar and pine trees

some day

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Anonymous Thu 31 Oct 2013 19:27:12 No.218589 Report

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>>218451

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 14:00:10 No.218771 Report

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Grew up in Dubai, kinda feel connected to it.
went camping almost every week.
Winter is the best, mornings are immense, dat dew, dat random camel in your camp, doze foot prints in de sand.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 14:59:11 No.218788 Report

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desert's are fucking amazing. Being in California I've gone to the mojave, the sonora, the colorado, and whatever the fuck death valley is. Each one is unique and full of life.

All the haters can go in droves to yosemite with millions of other people, I'll take the isolation of the desert any day of the week over any crowded forest

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 15:03:51 No.218789 Report

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>>218486
>quarry
>desert

You know nothing of the intricate ecosystem that exists within a desert you jersey visiting scum. Deserts are NOT a fucking quarry nor do they even look like one. They are a landscape where only the toughest, most resourceful critters can survive. And do they survive. Creosote bushes live for thousands of years, Ocotillo are biologically immortal. Where the fuck are you going to find that in your precious, monotonous pine forest?

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 15:24:06 No.218792 Report

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>>218148
Never been in one. I have been on island around the medeterranian sea.
>no grass
>no running water
>warm as fuck
No, I cannot imagine deserts being any better. I prefer arctic conditions.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 21:50:30 No.218899 Report

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the desert can be really pretty.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 22:32:17 No.218903 Report

Quoted By: >>218906

ME !

Like so much !

Hate moisture - like dry

A desert is like a jewel : all shiny

Minimal

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 22:40:01 No.218905 Report

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I used to live in Egypt, desert camping in the Sahara was one of the best things ever. Absolutely fantastic way to spend several days.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 22:58:32 No.218906 Report

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>>218903

Now that is a sexy pristine desert.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 23:08:27 No.218908 Report

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I do.
So nice and dry and warm.
I've got weird genes.
>live in Oregon for a long time
>I'm fucking freezing at 60 degrees
>doesn't matter how long I live there
>visit Grandma in California Valley
>95 degrees
>feels good man
400 years in Africa appears to have been long enough to select for heat resistance.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Nov 2013 23:54:30 No.218919 Report

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I love deserts, they're so big and open, I love being able to see for miles and miles in every direction. The damn scale of everything is so nice.

I have crazy good eyesight though, so maybe that's part of it.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 01:51:43 No.218965 Report

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>tfw never seen a desert in my life

Fuck, I've always had a huge desert boner. The problem is that I've lived my life on the northern side of the arctic circle and I sweat like a pig when it's over 15 celcius and I'm wearing more than a t-shirt. I can take the cold and I love winter but I've always had a thing for deserts and jungles, neither of which have I ever seen.

I can take heat pretty well up to 110 celcius in sauna, but I sweat like a motherfucker there (which is why I can take it). I'm really worried that if i ever travelled to a warmer country I'd just be.regarded as the smelly sweaty foreigner. Feels bad, man.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 03:41:36 No.219004 Report

Quoted By: >>219008

>>218148
me.
kikefag reporting in.
negev, judean desert, the arabah, reallly down south we have the end of the edom mountaines.
lots of variety desert wise.
fucking love it.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 04:07:47 No.219008 Report

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>>219004
>kikefag reporting in.
die in a fire

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 04:22:13 No.219011 Report

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>>218965
>15c
>sweating
it is 35-40c here all day long for 7 months a year here in florida
in 15 c id be putting on long pants and a jacket

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 04:24:13 No.219012 Report

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The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, aesthetically abstract, historically inimical.... It's forms are bold and suggestive. The mind is beset by light and space, the knesthetic novelty of aridity, high temperature, and wind. The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible. In other habitats, the rim, of sky above the horizontal is broken or obscured, here, together with the overhead position, it is infinately vaster than that of rolling countryside or forest lands.... In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earths curvature on their concave undersides, the angularity of desert landforms imparts a monumental architecture to the clouds as well as the land...
To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape, but to find reality

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 15:05:04 No.219096 Report

Quoted By: >>219097

Lived in AZ for 24 years and it's completely grown on me. I love the desert now and can't imagine living elsewhere.

the hiking is ridiculously good too. ran into this champion a few months back

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 15:07:32 No.219097 Report

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>>219096

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 15:08:35 No.219098 Report

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>>219097

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 16:49:53 No.219125 Report

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>>219098
> Sedona reporting, pic related

This almost looks like Four Peaks?

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 17:20:12 No.219152 Report

Quoted By: >>219161

What desert is the best in the US? I'm thinking about going to visit one.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 17:31:41 No.219161 Report

Quoted By: >>219163

>>219152
> best

In what way

Death Valley consistantly records record temps and is lowest point in US

Sonora is the wettest, giving the highest variety of plants and animal live (my pick and fav)

Mojave is nice... but...

For me, Sonora!
But I'm biased I live in it!

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 17:34:55 No.219163 Report

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>>219161
Which one looks the best/which one would you visit?

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 21:26:34 No.219288 Report

Quoted By: >>219292 >>222491

>>219163
Monument Valley
Chaco Canyon National Monument
Pertified Forest National Park
White Sands National Monument
Meteor Crater National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Mesa Verde National Monument
Arches National Monument
Pariah Canyon
West Fork of Oak Creek
North Rim Grand Canyon National Park
Wapatki National Monument
Batatikin National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
South Rim Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona Joshua Tree Forest
Organpipe National Monument
Sedona

> see the trend?

There's so much more...

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 21:33:57 No.219292 Report

Quoted By: >>219315

>>219288
I obviously do not know very much about deserts.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 22:19:51 No.219315 Report

Quoted By: >>219316 >>219322

>>219292
In that case most of my list is technically on tge geomorphic structure called tge Colorado Plateau.

The Organ Pipe and Arizona Joshua TreeForest truly are in the Sonora Desert,but since you're (going to be) here, why not catch the highlights?

I can think of no better way to speand a Fall season that to see the Anasazi Ruins of the SW.

After all they were here first and "peaked" aroubd 1200 AD.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 22:22:03 No.219316 Report

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>>219315
> mobile keys (sp) sorry

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2013 22:42:56 No.219322 Report

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>>219315
Thanks for the info. Those ruins sound cool.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 00:30:09 No.219353 Report

Quoted By: >>219355 >>219378

love the desert. trail leading to my favorite place in the world.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 00:31:20 No.219355 Report

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>>219353

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 00:32:58 No.219358 Report

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>>219355

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 00:34:06 No.219360 Report

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>>219358

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 00:35:29 No.219361 Report

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>>219360

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 00:36:40 No.219362 Report

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>>219361
campsite

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 01:33:21 No.219378 Report

Quoted By: >>219382

>>219353
>>219362
Where is this?

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 01:46:59 No.219382 Report

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>>219378
Escalante River Utah

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 14:45:41 No.219533 Report

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My favorite place to do geology.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 20:12:52 No.219652 Report

Quoted By: >>219669 >>219750

What do you guys do about water in the desert? Just pack in a ton of it?

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Anonymous Sun 03 Nov 2013 21:01:14 No.219669 Report

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>>219652
> pack i
Yes, if you lije to dribk it and are "dry camping".

Else, it's about hikeing to "destination water".

Locate, filter, purify, boil as needed. Truely, the bezt camps are at water sources... or not. That's where everybody wants to be. Best is sometimes to fill up at water source and move on to less used spots.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Nov 2013 00:58:58 No.219750 Report

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>>219652

Just drink piss.

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2013 15:32:21 No.222418 Report

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>>218385
There can be surprisingly strong winds in the desert. Sturdy ass tent
Lots of pointy and pocket plants and animals. If you have an inflatable pad use a thin ensolite mat underneath to preserve the life of your inflatable pad

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2013 15:40:14 No.222422 Report

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>>218385
I always take my bivy and sleep on the leeward side of something for the wind, boulders if you can find 'em. 2 sleeping pads too. inflatable and a light eva foam to reduce the chance of punctures and extra cushion.

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2013 15:48:56 No.222424 Report

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>>218789
Quarries do have a a lot of sand, grit and DG and do look a little deserty, being the summer it would get hot too. That was someone who was never in a desert apparently. Chill out, everything you said is why he wants to go to one.

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2013 19:43:49 No.222491 Report

Quoted By: >>223052

>>219288
>All those national parks and national monuments
I see you enjoy paying entry fees.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2013 02:27:29 No.223052 Report

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>>222491
Last time I was at GCNP (early sept) my friend got het Golden Eagle Pass (or something like that, fee $10, with discount on camp site).

Truely, most all listed have back roads and ungated entrances... if you know where to look. As Jim Morrison said, "I'm a backdoor man!"

Pic related from this last sat, no fee.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2013 02:32:51 No.223057 Report

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>>223052

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2013 02:54:16 No.223073 Report

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i absolutely love deserts. i've been to pretty much all the big southwest parks, so ask me anything

and i would say that big bend is very underrated

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