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This trip was mostly in the State Park.

I used the DJI app and it has canned music. It's lame. Sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hqv1VeeRY Here is sunrise at Guale 2

My advice is to grab a friend and go. You can look at my 2016 report and find the route we took for the NP and the links in this thread give you a good idea how to see the State Park. Finding someone to invite you on an expo trip is going to be hard. Just go. Don't wait or you will never see it.

Great job

Great writeup @weejeep2 thank you for the link. More people can see both trips and help themselves decide where to spend their time

Awesome report. I'm super jealous of the hikes. I really need to make time to do some hiking. Thanks for the link!

The extender had a trailer hooked to it except for the trip up To Nowhere. No issues. I run an 8" on mine. Both are necessary to clear the swingout and keep the trailer hooked up

We made our way to Presidio by 4 pm and gassed up. Since I had left mine parked Saturday morning, I was still on one tank of gas from Study Butte. I estimate I could have done all of it with an extra 5 gallons. I had 10 on me. We wanted to get on the road so we could drive Texas HWY 17 from...

The ranger at the office had told us that Mexicali was one of the best campsites in the park and we were about 2 miles from it at this point so we hooked a right towards Vista Point and began to climb. Im super glad we did not miss this part of the trail. It was.....well, Epic...... Turns...

Jackel Pens was an old ranch house with pumps and an old farmhouse. We stopped and made a sammich and walked around and looked at stuff. The wind was picking back up so we were getting whipped. You know. There is nothing Expo about this truck and it certainly is not Expo As...

At this point one in our group had already had to turn north and depart followed by two others about an hour later. Four of us had the entire day to explore in the park so we split up at the Rancherias Loop and headed back east for Jackel Pens. This road is less maintained than the Guale Mesa...

That evening we pitched tents and cooked dinner on the edge of the Guale Mesa. As thunderstorms crashed to the west and north of us, the east wind picked up to steady 20-30 mph. We took David's ridiculous looking electric blue tundra with non matching camper top and blocked some of the wind so...

The park ranger told us it would take over 2 hours to go the 8 miles to Guale 2 and the storm we knew was coming was brewing hard to the west. We dropped into the campsite as the sun was setting and were greeted with 20 mph winds but what felt like camping on the edge of the Grand...

At this point Andy got on the radio and said can we stop and take some drone footage? I was glad to oblige and took the Phantom up for a spin to try to capture more of what we were seeing https://youtu.be/iywa-Cm87Uc Check out the link above for a short video clip of the mesa

We stopped in HQ, took a shower, grabbed some ice and hit the trail for Guale 2 campsite. The weather report was 50% chance of rain with 25-30 mph winds out of the east. We backed up camp with Guale 1 which is in a protected area but we really has Guale 2 on the brain. This trail started off...

Here are a couple more pictures from camp, we stopped in and collected our vehicles we left behind and stopped to check out Fresno Vista on the way back to the headquarters to register for night number 2. I love the living desert. You can leave here without looking close and see nothing...

After we cruised to the end of the road near Shutup Canyon in the SE corner of the park, we backtracked to enter The Road to Nowhere. This is a cool narrow road that traces the eastern edge of El Solitario, an ancient volcano. You can see our camp in the distance over Louis' LX470 It...

The Cayenne is awesome and would do fine on any trail at Big Bend. I just did a trip to the State Park Ranch and it would do fine there too. Just expect some scratches

We finally split out of camp around 9:30 am. We had a couple of dead-end destinations with small turn arounds at the end so we left 3 of our 7 vehicles at camp. First spot was the Uranium mine. This is a beautiful climb that takes you to a high point on the eastern edge of Big Bend Ranch...