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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2532557" data-attributes="member: 1057">O.K., thought of some other phenomenon-related ones:There's actually a fair amount of cotton grown along the Rio Grande river valley throughout Texas and southern New Mexico.  My understanding is that some varieties of cotton only bloom at certain temperatures, and some years, it gets so hot along the river valley (I can remember summers at my grandparents' place where it would hit 114 F) that the cotton doesn't bloom until nighttime, when it cools down a little bit.So, how 'bout the Valley of Night Blossoms, or similar, where it's hot enough to warrant a Fort save during the daytime during sternuous activity of any kind?Another:  The Rockslide.  In the Santa Elena canyon, in Big Bend National Park, there's a portion of the canyon wall on the Mexico side that fell into the Rio Grande a few years back (probably tens of thousands, if not more; for some good photos, check out:  <a href="http://www.rivergeek.com/se_pic1.html" target="_blank">http://www.rivergeek.com/se_pic1.html</a> ), resulting in some very bad rapids at the point where the boulders (some of which are larger than yer average 2 story house) met the waterway.  The Rockslide could work, but so could other names like the Earthslide, The Fallen Earth, The Fallen Lands, The Cairn of the Colossus, etc.  An explorer in 1901 dubbed the camp he made on the other side of the Rockslide after portage, Camp Misery (he considered the rapids unnavigable; it's another good name).It could also be called the Drowning Place, The Drowning Channel, or similar.  My father and I almost drowned there, many years ago, during a canoe trip.  Our group was going to portage over the rockslide (which takes about 2-3 hours itself), but due to a series of mishaps up to that point, the canoe my father and I had ended up having to carry a third person, resulting in a freeboard of about 2 inches.  We got swamped, and for a few moments there, I thought it was the end (even with our life vests).  On Mom's birthday, no less.  Thankfully, we all survived, though there have been drowning deaths in that canyon.North of Santa Fe, New Mexico is a rock formation weathered from thousands of years of exposure, shaped like a camel.  It's called . . . (wait for it) . . . Camel Rock.  Ta da!  See <a href="http://www.goldenhourphotography.com/Gallery/camel-rock-1003/camel-rock-1003.html" target="_blank">http://www.goldenhourphotography.com/Gallery/camel-rock-1003/camel-rock-1003.html</a>Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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