My wife and I drove down to Balmorhea yesterday, a sunny day, and I was reminded of how beautiful the northern escarpment of the Davis Mountains really is. I had accumulated many photographs of it while working on Davis Mountains Vistas and this is one of my favorites, taken on a November morning.
The flat-topped Forbidden Mountain (6,190 feet) is on the skyline at left with the brown pyramid of Little Aguja Mountain (5,192 feet) in front. The light-colored rocks on its flanks are Upper Cretaceous shales and limestones. Above them, a rhyolite intrusion crops out on the smooth light brown slopes.
Timber Mountain (6,447 feet) is on the skyline at right. On it, the sequence is, from bottom up, Huelster, Star Mountain and Gomez Formations, overlain by Adobe Canyon rhyolite.
