Hueco Tanks - El Paso, TX

1st stop, Hueco Tanks. Isolated in the desert about 30mi. from El Paso, Hueco Tanks offers up world class bouldering inside what is thought to be one of the oldest and most unusual art galleries in the southwest. The park exhibits three thousand five hundred paintings on clean dessert rock that offers rock climbers a lifetime of bouldering problems and traditional routes.





Hueco Tanks was formed some 35 million years ago from molten rock, or magma that welled up deep within the earth. Initially covered by warm seas, geological forces uplifted the ground as seas retreated. Erosion then stripped away the Limestone leaving behind the more resistant igneous rock with natural basins called "huecos" in Spanish. The formations left behind help to capture and preserve some of the scare (only 8 inches) annual rainfall. This resource has brought many different inhabitants to the tanks. Artifacts have proven human inhabitance from as for back as ten thousand years ago.

Links -

Reservations (make 'em in advance):
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/hueco_tanks/

History:
http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/may/stories/hueco.html

Climbing:
http://www.huecotanks.com/
http://www.drtopo.com/

Accomodations:
http://www.huecorockranch.com/

Weather:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/local/USTX0413?from=search_city

Details:
I will be staying at the Rock Ranch from Feb. 15 - 23rd. I have reservations in the park for Feb 16-17 and 20-22.

Temporary Address (Feb 15 - 23):
Warren Harden
General Delivery
El Paso, TX 79910-9998