The Colima Warbler hike in Big Bend requires you to start early with headlamps. The first thing sign my wife and I saw at 4:30 am last year was "Warning Mountain Lions, DO NOT Hike in the Dark, or in Small Groups".
I don't quite know how I convinced my wife to keep going, but the idea of her waiting for me when she got tired evaporated.

This is a long 10 mile all day trip. You have to hike the trail between mid-April and mid-May, so it's hot. If we 66 yr olds with crappy joints can make it, anyone can, but it's not for the faint of heart. Be sure to get hotel reservations in the park many months early. The bird is very hard to find. A major birding group owes me for finding the bird and guiding them to it.

Lovely mountains, surrounded by vast areas of empty desert that make eastern Washington look like a garden.

RCC



Richard Carlson
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From: Roger Moyer <rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com>
To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2009 11:42:45 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Colima Warbler

I am comtemplating going after the Colima Warbler next spring and would appreicate input from anyone who has made the "jaunt". I understand it it quite a climb to get to the site. If somone could contact me offline about the hike and such I would appreicate it.

Roger Moyer
rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com
Chehalis, WA

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