Mountain Top Desk
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MizzMonkey
N 30° 22.250 W 103° 38.683
13R E 630230 N 3360656
A school desk from the University below up at the top of this mountain. It has now been decorated by visitors with art and graffiti along with their notes in the log book in the desk drawer.
Waymark Code: WM13W4F
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2021
Views: 7
The Desk has attracted students, faculty, staff and visitors to Hancock Hill as a place for contemplation and reflection. In 1981, Sul Ross Industrial Tech Education student Jim Kitchen and classmates Bill Wagner and Travis Miller decided they needed a quiet spot away from the dorm to study. Together they carried a desk up Hancock Hill right above Mountainside dormitory. Soon Kitchen and his friends were spending hours up on the hill studying and enjoying the beautiful surroundings. One day, Kitchen left a notebook in one of the desk drawers and when he checked it later, someone had written in it.
He replied and soon the tradition of a notebook associated with The Desk was born. Ten years later, the first completed notebooks were brought to the Archives of the Big Bend in the Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library. To reach The Desk, take Entrance 4, drive to the top, turn left and park at the highest point behind Mountainside dorm. Look for a trail heading uphill and continue climbing to a rock pile at the top and then follow the trail to The Desk. Allow 20 minutes for the hike from the parking lot. Hikers are also encouraged to observe property boundaries separating SRSU from private property. Please reference map links at the top of this page.
Enjoy the view and you are welcome to leave your comments and thoughts in the notebook in The Desk.
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