Guadalupe Peak intro
I've had Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, somewhere in my head since 1995 when I first got my drivers license. Back then, I planned this huge road trip that involved going to Big Bend and hiking forty miles through the desert, and doing a bunch of unlikely stuff, before ending up at Guadalupe Mountains National Park (GUMO) to climb the 8751ft Guadalupe Peak. Of course, it never happened. I spent the rest of my high school years driving an hour every weekend to see a girl, and forty hours a week after school working at Burger King to pay for the gas for the weekend trips. Later, I replaced the girl with getting drunk and going to school with a hangover. Then I traded going to school hung over for just not going to school at all. I quit school halfway through my senior year as a petty little protest in support of a friend. Quitting school left more time for work, getting drunk, and sitting on the friend's front porch, but somehow there still was not enough time to g...