That’s right! The 2024 Fall rockhunting season in the Big Bend of Texas starts…. Yesterday. Or maybe it was last week. Anyway, the weather is theoretically cooler, and people can take actual (rather than virtual) trips out to the Big Bend to rockhunt with three friendly, experienced, clever and knowledgeable guides. The season is only about 2 months long (at least for Teri), so you need to decide on your dates fairly soon if you wish to find a great actual place to stay and visit the Big Bend for rockhunting and other kinds of recreation.
The schedule is printed below as a .pdf file. It should fit on a page for printing, if you don’t mind teeny tiny margins. I’ll post them schedules all over town here in Alpine and hopefully other towns in the area.
I didn’t have room on the schedule for the starting times and locations for the hunts. That’s pretty easy: All of Aaron’s hunts start at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of his Tri-La-Bite food truck, located on East Holland Avenue in Alpine. All of Jean’s hunts start at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of Little Caesar’s Pizza in Alpine, located where Cockrell Street crosses Holland Avenue (Highway 90 going East). Teri’s hunts to the South Larremore Ranch and East Needle Peak also start at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of Little Caesar’s Pizza in Alpine. The hunts to the Ritchie Ranch start an hour later, at 9 a.m. in the same Little Caesar’s Pizza lot. The reason the Ritchie Ranch hunts start later is that children are notoriously hard to get ready in the morning, so an extra hour is a good thing, and because the ride to the ranch is about 5 minutes long.
You can email or call or text any of us with questions about the hunts we lead. We look forward to seeing you this Fall!
Regards,
Teri, Aaron, and Jean
