Embracing the unknown in Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park – Santa Elena Canyon Trail Hike - When you start this hike, if you go on a day when the water is high, you may not want to trek across to the other side of the trail in waist deep water and mud. There’s an alternate route, but you have to walk further down to the right of the trail head and basically climb the side of this mountain. We don’t really think this was a part of the “official” trail, but people have trekked it enough that it’s manageable. It adds some time to th