Ouch, Ouch, Ouch! Wed., Feb, 5th, the hiking club met to carpool to a trail that we were told was 3.5 miles long. The majority of the group said there was another trail in the same area only a little longer at 5 miles long. I decided to take the longer trail instead of the shorter one with only about 4 people. Well, somebody sure didn’t know how to read THAT map! The trail I took was 7 miles long! It was 43 degrees and overcast that morning. The trail was up the side of the mountain and back down the other side in the Rincon mountain range on the far east side of Tucson. It was steep in places as we used the stone steps, of which some were rather individually tall that required holding on to some of the rock walls to help get up them. Good thing I use a hiking stick. We all thought coming down would be easy. Wrong! The trail heading down was almost as steep with some more individually tall steps. Ouch! That was pretty tough on the old knees. Don’t think I will take that trail again! Pictures are not all that great because of the weather, but the second picture shows The Tanque Verde Dude Ranch and Spa Resort that is very famous here in Tucson. Up we go!
Even though the weather wasn’t all that great, we still had some great views of the Tucson Valley. There was even a bit of snow on the very top left over from a slight rain shower earlier in the week. Guess the elevation was high enough that some of the mountains got snow instead of rain. But Tucson is still in a major drought. It is so dry that the ski slopes on the back side of Mt. Lemmon may not even open this year.
We were all tired when the this hike was over! That includes the 80 year old man that was with us who could out hike any of us! Amazing!
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