Please Tell Me About the Woodward Ranch

Jeri: Woodward Ranch is on Calamity Creek Road about 15 miles south of Alpine, TX on Texas hwy 118. They have a website www.woodwardranch.net that has more information. Think they've gotten a lot more expensive since last I was there something like $2 per pound for what you keep plus camping fees, if you camp, but the agate types you can find are very valuable so it's definitely worth a trip. Beautiful scenery too plus there's sometimes the opportunity for side trips to places like Needle Peak south of there. I've been several times and have always found something new and remarkable with a little effort.....Mel

Jeri: Thing about Woodward is you never know what kind of wonderful agate will show up. I've personally found plume in red, black , greenish rose and gold, moss in all colors, orbicular and peanut agate, flower garden agate, fortification agate to rival some of that from Mexico, sagenite, geodes with clear quartz or amethyst, good carnelian, blue and purple agate and many types that combine several of these features. On a Woodward side trip to Marfa we found lots of bouquet plume, black plume and nice black and whited banded agate and at Needle Peak green moss, gold moss, some green plume and some pom pom agate. Woodward's main ranch is my favorite though as there is just so much good agate to be found there. Here's some pics of some of my plume agate examples. Most these are from Woodward and a couple from Marfa...Mel

Here are a few WW that I have collected over the years alone and with my RTH friends, the Blitzers.











Hey, that's not a rock! It's what happened to us on our way to the WWR Blitz #1. Duck tape does it all.






These come from the very first rock that my wife and I found out there over twenty years ago.


Condor

I can add a few more pics for you.

The cabin


Scenery from the cabin


The Blitzers


Some of the agates










Only in Texas!!!

Oh, by all means. Feel free to use that picture. Duct tape, WD-40 and some Bailing Wire. That will take care of all your traveling ailments.

Condor

Well not exactly, but we almost did. It was Jamie (Desert Dweller, Ed (Stoner) and I heading to WWR Blitz I in the now famous Green Burrito (that's another story). Just outside of El Paso, the front end of the truck was beginning to shake. I'm getting a little concerned, Stoner says we'll be okay then POW! we get a blowout. Luckily I did have a good spare tire. The blown tire was in shreads that were quite sharp so in order to be able to put it back in the Explorer we ended up Duct taping it. What was really cool about all this is that all three of us had just known each other for about an hour. Ed and Jamie a little be longer because they met on the plane from Phoenix to El Paso. By the time we fixed the flat, we were already good friends. By the time we got to the Blitz, it was like we had known each other for years.

BTW...
Folks, if you ever get the chance when driving through Van Horn, Texas be sure to stop by and have some of the Diesel Fried Chicken that Stoner showed you a picture of. It is to die for.

Condor