What a nice place for hiking. Connie and I have been on 2 long hikes in the past two days and have been enjoying the beautiful Santa Catalinas north of Tucson.
The night before we headed "across town" to travel from Ray Gilbert Campground (on the West Side of Tucson) north to Catalina we had our friends the Gambel quail in our campsite and, yet another, gorgeous Arizona sunset:
We've had a number of hikes (and a great guided one of the "Nature Trail" with Monty! Lots of info on the Saguaro cactus and other desert flora.
These wonderful plants (almost like "people" especially at dusk!), are shaped by water abundance, cold/freezes and by lightning.
This area has been occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years, and if you look carefully you can find grain grinding holes (mano?) where these peoples turned mesquite seed into flour.
Our campsite under the Santa Catalina's.
Lunch break on a 10 mile desert hike. She's a slave driver!
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