Just past the suburbs of Phoenix, the Pass Mountains rise up 2,000 feet from the desert floor and Usery Mountain park abuts Tonto National Forest, so the hiking goes on forever. We, however, don't go on forever but we did do a nice six-mile hike through a saguaro cactus forest to a great overlook. Tucker got a sticker in his foot, but we got through that crisis (anything with Tucker's feet is a crisis to him).
"...I decided to visit California for a year or two to see its wonderful flora and the famous Yosemite Valley. All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander." --John Muir (1868)
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Hiking the Sonoran Desert
Just past the suburbs of Phoenix, the Pass Mountains rise up 2,000 feet from the desert floor and Usery Mountain park abuts Tonto National Forest, so the hiking goes on forever. We, however, don't go on forever but we did do a nice six-mile hike through a saguaro cactus forest to a great overlook. Tucker got a sticker in his foot, but we got through that crisis (anything with Tucker's feet is a crisis to him).
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