My dads friend canoed it once a year and ate a goat or two along the way! In about 1979, when the lake was up 30-50’ from where it is now, I put in a little 14’ boat with a 25 HP Evinrude and went as far up the Pecos as the boat would go and waited on the canoe so I could tow him back to the High Bridge. We went way further than you because the water was much deeper back then. It was stunningly beautiful!!! Had to dodge underwater boulders the further we went to go as far as we could. Started camping at the High Bridge in 1968 at four years old when it was still private property and you had to go to a gas station in Comstock and pay for access and get a key to the gate. There were javalina hogs and skunks that would raid your campground at night. We would lay there at night and watch the falling stars. We would set out trotlines and catch 100’s of pounds of catfish using goldfish as bait. We would also bait out a fishing hole with soured corn and rod n reel fish all day with Catfish Charlie or Quanna bait and catch fish all day! We would leave with several large ice chests full of catfish. Would catch an occasional gar. We took a couple of boats all the way up the Rio Grande to Langtry one time and camped in a cave for a week in about 1979, I was 15. It took several hours because our boats were loaded with supplies and we went slow. I have explored many caves with Indian paintings as a small child. I miss those days and heard the lake has been very low for many many years and I bet many places are no longer accessible.

You have stumbled across the historic piers of the original Railroad crossing of the Pecos River. The first part of the transcontinental route of the Southern Pacific Railroad was on a shelf of the Pecos River Canyon. Construction of the first railroad bridge over the Pecos River took place in 1882 when the Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railroad built its tracks over the Pecos River. The lower Pecos River railroad route was abandoned when the high bridge railroad crossing was completed. In WWII, traffic demand required the construction of another. railroad bridge. That is the one we see today.

Amazing to see no crowds, my kind of place.

Love your perspectives and relaxed pace, man. You're like the Texan Bob Ross of outdoors and local history.

Talk about amazing places to be alive this is other worldly.

The most scenic and peaceful place at the end of the line.

Thanks for this video. I can't wait to explore this area of Texas. I have saved more of your videos of Texas than any others. thanks for all you do and keep them coming, very informative and helpful 😎

Wild goat at 2:00🐐

Great video Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Stunning river

Great video! And, I totally agree with your Davis Mountains National Park opinion. There’s actually aspen trees on Mount Livermore. And even in summer, the peak stays generally in the 60s! What a shame that we don’t allow access to such amazing land. If you haven’t gone, next time you’re out there go to the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center just east of Fort Davis. It’s 6.50 to get in and has some beautiful hikes, including Modesta Springs Canyon

I know the Sosa family they're very nice people.😊

In August of 2003 a small group of us and two NPS rangers canoed/kayaked from a boat access area just south of the Hwy 90 bridge up to the Pecos River High Bridge which was built in 1944 for the Southern Pacific. It replaced the spindly 1892 railroad High Bridge which was just a short distance upstream. (Some of the masonry feet survive.) That building in your video housed a pump station. It had (has) a Fairbanks-Morse pump inside if it's not all silted up. About a half mile or less upstream is a slowly flowing spring which was tapped as a water source for steam locomotives. On a following day an even smaller group launched from the same access point and headed south to the confluence of the Pecos and Rio Grande. We hooked a right and paddled up the Rio Grande to a point near one of the two railroad tunnels. That's another story! By the way, the foundation of the first Pecos Bridge built in 1883 for the railroad remains under silt where the Pecos meets the Rio Grande. The iron superstructure is long gone.

Stunning geology. Thanks for doing all the paddling 😆 i enjoyed this trip and at @6:24 that looked like a natural boat house in the rock - you could make a home out of that maybe 👍 👌 👊 😊 🇬🇧

Absolutely beautiful...thanks for sharing.

Absolutely Beautiful So Awesome 👍👏💕we are getting ready to Kayak in Montana next month can’t wait 😛 we will stop in Pecos River as well

Keep the videos coming! I wait with anticipation for each one, which outdoes the one before!

Thnxs 4 sharing 🇺🇸

2:01/11:52 You have company 🐐 Love your video's ♡

wonderfull barren landscape..

Thanks for this! I'd never be able to see this if it hadn't been for your adventure!

Very nice. Enjoyed it very much thanks!

Awesome! I had been wanting to kayak exactly in that spot. Thanks for giving me a peek of what lies ahead! And for the history lesson as well. 🤠👍🏼

Back in the early 90’s I crossed the U.S. 90 high bridge, and caught up with a train along side the road out by Langtry where the tracks and highway run close together. Sure is a sight I won’t soon forget. Thanks for your videos of TEXAS ❤️👍

So happy you made this video. We want to kayak this spot so bad and Devil’s River. That entrance is rough and it’s gone down in the past year. Enjoy you videos so much!!!

This is awesome 👍. Great place and voice over. Would like to cover this for sure!

Awesome! 👍😉🇨🇦

Really nice video. I remember going there with my dad back in the 60's and 70's. I'd love to make a trip down there again.

Awesome journey

gorgeous scenery!

Awesome friend,incredible places

Omg! So pretty! And so much history Would love to go rafting down it someday You are so lucky to get to travel all over Texas.

super video my friend👍👍

Wonderful peace, quiet and solitude apart from the ever welcome wildlife, and not one single inch of graffiti! I'd love to know how high the river has been, in living memory, having recently watched a disturbing video about the decline of the Colorado River and the Hoover Dam.

As an old geography buff and map junkie, I've known where the Pecos River was for a long time but when I saw the title of your video I opened up Google Earth and followed it's twisty path from "the ruins" down to the Rio Grande. Wow, much more to this "present trickle" than I ever thought, can only imagine what it was like several hundred to a couple thousand yeas ago, hard to imagine what the region was like when the "Pecos" was at flood stage...same with the Rio Grande...The history of the Spanish in the New World is tragic, it would be amazing to view the whole Southwest a thousand years ago when the climate was still more temperate, and the Anasazi (and/or others) were at their peak and hundreds of years before "de Vaca's" account of the extremely poor groups he encountered (It's been awhile since I really studied the Spanish in the Southwest), anyway , I really enjoyed your short video, subscribed and will be "digging deeper"... And by the way, there are so many people "racing to places", they miss what's right under their nose, I'll take the poking along in a kayak over a speed boat any day.

Enjoying this from Minnesota :) Thank you for providing thsi!

You crazy bastard... Love it! Awesome Texas journey!

Thank you.

What a beautiful place...hopefully it's not affected by drought...I've heard of judge Roy bean...my sister lived in east Texas, in a place called Marshall Texas, and it is so different than west texas

I've taken the 53 mile trip down the Pecos.. crazy stuff ,, beautiful and dangerous as heck in some spots .. if you have trouble of any kind you are out of luck .. no way out but to paddle .. that last 8 miles to where you got in is brutal !!! Both times the wind was gailing and it was paddle to butt all the way .. I truly thought I would cry before I got through that last 8 miles to the high bridge ... I want to try just going up river some day .

Thank you I've been wanting to kayak that spot myself. I also want to take the guided tour to the white Shaman Preserve

🚣awesome vids dude. Thanks

Be cool to bring a snorkel. Probably got Guadalube bass.

Did you not notice the little black goat when you were talking about the history of the Pecos?

Where did all the water come from ? You can jump across it in some places in NM .

I tired a few months ago but the current was too much. Still had fun going down the Pecos.

Let me know if you want a boat ride in Lake Amistad when you are back in the area. We live near the lake and fish it 3-4 days a week when we are home.

Kinda looks like the narrows

Drank water out of mountain springs in Mexico had poops for 1 week

What length kayak do you have? It looks like shorter would be better in the tight spots but longer would do better on the open water.

Looks like one of the bridges in the game Red Dead Redemption lol

What type of kayak do you use and how much does it weigh?

We got amazing things here in Texas Please only Leave Footprints No Trash or Graffiti

How deep is that stretch of river?

Was that really the end , what happens if you go further up...maybe it opens up again into another canyon? You could portage it, so we can see more? I'm really wondering what was there now?oh hang where does that cave go?

Home

Somewhat rough water at the beginning... just the wind or is it the speed of the water over a shallow bottom (rapids)?

I hear tale of large catfish.

What is the pacus river?

Where did you put in? sorry maybe i missed the explanation. South of the bridge? is there access or you hiked down w your kayal?

How deep would you say the river you kayaked on was ?

how do i find this place?

HOW LONG AGO WAS THIS WHEN DID YOU GO??

no one for miles

Where is this located at where you went in?

No gator ?

What animal was that at 2:00?

The property across from semenole canyon state park is for sale . It's the property with the railroad bridge . I think it dead man's canyon ranch . If you want to look it up it explains the history

you got your paddles upside down ....