This guy?
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/historyculture/a_rangers_lament.htm
Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You could be a lost soul for a long time in Big Bend. I've given it some
> thought from time to time. After my first religious experience (10-day
> camping trip) there, I wrote a column for the newspaper I worked for. (In
> North Carolina.) Got a phone call a few days later from an elderly
> gentleman in a local assisted living facility. Turns out he was the _first_
> park ranger at Big Bend, and, he said, for a while the only ranger there.
> He said they used to call him the Lone Ranger of the Big Bend. He had some
> stories. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Leo Wesson <leowesson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Big Bend is nice. My first job out of college was as a peregrine falcon
> > nesting researcher in Big Bend and the Guadalupe Mountains. We lived in
> an
> > abandoned school in Alpine when we weren't out in the field. Pretty much
> > camped out for a year. Longest single stretch in the field was when we
> > canoed/camped out for 6 weeks straight (no shower). Ran out of food for
> 3
> > days thanks to some sneaky ravens. Met some interesting people. Lots
> of
> > lost and hiding out souls down there at the time: no last names, don't
> ask
> > questions...some real characters.
> >
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