It was a mixture, again in that space betwixt what I know and try to believe. I did well until the drive there when I realized the actors, the director and crew traveled this road, it started to hit me.
It is called Goat creek.
The walk thru horsefly country to a little place like all the beautiful places here, but different. Here Heath and Jake had been, had laid upon the ground, rolled over rocks, recited lines, changed my life. Here was the place the tent was, the fire, was this bit of charcoal one of those cooling embers? Here, now knitted into the fabric of the land, that rolls on and on out ward to all of you, to my home, now solid in its reality.
Thankyou, Darryl Solly, and all those involved with findingbrokeback.com.
When Ennis rode away from Jack that first morning the world had changed, this is what he saw around the bend: