Hancock Hill sits behind the campus of Sul Ross State University on the northeast side of Alpine and sometime in 1981 apparently 3 Industrial Tech students decided to haul a steel desk up and over a couple very rocky hills to a quiet vista overlooking a peaceful bit of west Texas:
There are several markers, pens and notebooks in the drawers and people leave anything from their name to a page full of their thoughts. We chose to leave our scribble on the desk itself along with so many others:
A little northward around the hill is the bicycle tree. Not quite as impressive an accomplishment but still something. We can only assume that it will grow in the years to come:
