Just so my readers don't think I'm sitting in a rocking chair on my front porch, looking at the mountains all day, Julia and I headed out before sunrise for a challenging and beautiful hike in the Catalinas this morning.
This hike on Alltrails is called "Finger Rock, Pontatoc Connector and Pontatoc Loop. We arrived at the trailhead parking lot at 7 a.m. There are some really fancy houses near the trailhead. We were thankful that their "back yard" (the Coronado National Forest) is still free to the public for outdoor enjoyment.
Alltrails has some good advice on this loop. It's best hiked clockwise, especially for us early-starters. Most of the hike was in the cool shade of the canyon, and we finished the hard part first. The Finger Rock section is gradual for about the first mile but quickly steepens and involves scrambling on rocks with hands and feet for the next two miles.
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| Cool Shadows of Canyon at Sunrise |
This is a hike where there are views everywhere one looks.
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| From the top of the trail |
From here, there is a new Pontatoc connector trail which was absolutely beautiful (and fairly flat at the top). Then it was the Pontatoc loop which brought us back to the initial trailhead (and later to the Tucson Hop Shop.
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| Hazy IPA and Oatmeal Stout (nitro tap) |
4 comments:
Great looking hike! Always nice to put a new pin in my Gaia map.
Hummm - Gaia doesn't seem to show that trail extention to the Hop Shop though -
Wandering the web found these two things:
https://barriobread.com/
https://www.nativeseeds.org/collections/melons
You've never mentioned an interest in growing anything, but Native Seeds/SEARCH has some interesting varieties that might be fun.
I like reading about desert plants, but haven't had much success growing my own.
I've heard of Barrio Bread and need to put it on my list of places to visit soon. I want to incorporate some of their flours in my sourdough.
There are so many ways to hike Mount Lemmon. I did a hike today at Tanque Verde Falls, which had water but slow flow.
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