Arizona Trail: Mount Lemmon
- Author
- alison young
- Published
- Thu 07 Jul 2022
- Episode Link
- None
Blissful bumps into Holly "Hobbit" who steps right into the trail behind her for the steepest of all sky islands.
In this episode:
- We're warned that we'll need to use our hands on the exposed rock up Mount Lemmon.
- It's hard but fun with a companion, exactly the same age and speed, who talks non-stop.
- The views to the desert are glorious, but nothing compared to the hoodoo forest of wind and water-worn rock in fanciful shapes.
- Streams abound, cool and fresh before it's deep in forest that seems to go on forever through changing biomes, as if traveling from Mexico to Canada.
- We arrive just in time to get pizza in Summerhaven, before heading down the Oracle Ridge to a flat spot at Dan's Saddle, just as the moon rises.
MUSIC: Air de Chacarera by Horacio Salgan and Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel Lasala as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano
