Tag: DWTH

Wednesday, Jan 29th, 2025, 0750-1700Catalina SP fee station to El Camino del Cerro (Sweetwater) TH SNP, Section 1A mm 8.5 to 27.519 miles I stayed up way too late trying to sync all my last minute plans and then had a terrible time trying to sleep. For some reason, all the negative thoughts I sometimes get before a hike flooded my mind. It had been awhile since I struggled with so much anxiety. I barely got more than 2 hours of sleep before I had to get up. Josh generously offered to drive me to Catalina State Park before he had to go to work in the morning, so we left bright and early at 6 am.  Once I got[…]

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I flew from Miami to Tucson on January 28th, just in time to welcome the rain and cold sweeping in on a front. The forecast called for a 60% chance of rain the next day, planned start of my hike, plus snow up to an inch on nearby Mt Lemmon. As was typical, this left me scrambling to change my plans. But I wasn’t at all put-off by such weather; in fact, I welcomed it as a positive sign. I was hopeful it was the start of the usual winter precipitation patterns returning to the SW. The region had been hit by a very bad drought since the previous spring. The summer monsoons had been weak to non-existent and the winter[…]

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