Exploring the Chisos Mountains, Part 7: The Last Look Window-ward | Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

Taken farther down the Window Trail. Looking west-southwestward.

The hikers at bottom center provide foreground scale.

This is my own favorite shot of the Window locale in the Chisos Basin because its strikes me, for some subconscious reason, as the most pointillistically painterly of the set.

The Window itself, a stream-carved erosional gap in the ramparts of Oligocene-epoch South Rim Formation rhyolite, lies a little out of view behind the apron of landslide and colluvium deposits extending from the southern slope of Vernon Bailey Peak, at right.

And, as also noted in previous posts of this set, the very distinctive canine tooth on the far side of the Window is Amon Carter Peak. The ridge running up to its left points the way to Ward Mountain.

I wish I could better convey the sense of the Chisos Mountains I've always had, as a place of guarded seclusion at height, a harbor for strange forms of life not found elsewhere on the land below. In the end one just has to live with one's memories and recorded images, and with one's own metageology and metabotany, and accept the lack of transmissibility to others.

To see the other photos and descriptions in this set and my other Big Bend series, visit my my Natural History: Big Bend Region & All of Trans-Pecos Texas album.

Taken in: United States / Texas / Basin Junction (show map)

Taken on: March 14, 2002

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