Adventure 826: Day 49/Tucson/2023

After a morning of Tai Chi for me and training with Rob for Judy, we headed to the Saguaro National Park-West. We did a three mile exploratory hike today beginning at the El Camino del Cerro trailhead, which is a fifteen or twenty minute drive from the house. The terrain is rocky and undulated, steep in some places, rugged. The views are North looking over the city of Tucson and further out to the Catalinas. Very pleasing. We discovered that hikes of  any distance could be traversed in this area, but it's no easy walk in the park. Preparations should be made. It did give us another data point in our understanding of Tucson and the surrounds. That's fun. We settled in for dinner and a movie afterwards and considered life to be good, especially today.

This color of blue makes me howl at the moon.

Welcome to Tucson. It's that a way.

Recommended for serious hikers.

It's easy to get off trail in the desert, especially if a hiker misses signs like stacked cairns and rocks lined up to say, "Not this way."

Every time we go to the desert there is a little more color.

Hiker babe sashaying down the trail.

Hello, Mister Poppy!

One in ten thousand develop these crowns. I like to think I'm in the presence of royalty.

We hoped to catch a little of the dessert bloom before we leave. We're hoping the good rains will bring things along early. Maybe so if a little consistent heat would arrive. We'll keep looking.