May 30th report

Hello. We drove from Lubbock to Fort Stockton initially, to target some upslope flow into the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas. Storms formed to the west so we dropped south-westwards to Alpine, Texas, to intercept a supercell coming in from the west. It tended to weaken as it approached, but we were very taken with the scenery - we've not been down this far before (Fort Stockton was our limit) so the mountain scenery was cool.

Another storm had formed and was tracking east, so we headed east to Marathon and then south a bit. We saw some supercell structure before this cell tended to die out. We dropped a bit further south to get some more shots of the scenery and stormscape before heading back up to Marathon - we had to stop at a US Border station, as the road goes north from the Big Bend State Park, where there is effectively nothing more than the Rio Grande seperating the US and Mexico.

We ended the day at a hotel in Alpine, Texas - we had dinner with Steve, Pete and Dan, and then took a couple of beers with them at their digs.

All in all a long day of driving - the storms were OK, but the scenery and new locations pushed it into the pretty cool category.

A few pics below.