Bruce Hale The SaddleBrooke Hiking Club welcomes guide Aaron Schoenberg as the November program speaker. His topic will be “Peakbagging in New England,” a summary of climbs to 67 peaks in that area over many years. He will present this program at the SaddleBrooke One Activity Center at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Fifty-five…
Jim Solon The SaddleBrooke Hiking Club Program Committee will host members of the Southern Arizona Rescue Association (SARA) on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke One Activity Center. SARA is a nonprofit, all-volunteer search and rescue team organization serving Southern Arizona and Pima County since 1958 without a charge for its services.…
Lori Anderson Ray Peale, who has been coordinating trail maintenance work sessions with the Arizona Trail Association (ATA) for several years, has moved and will be unable to continue in his role representing the Hiking Club as steward of Oracle Passage #13. I’ve been assisting Ray since October of 2023 and will take over for…
Jeff Love One of our new SaddleBrooke Hiking Club members recently noticed that the American flag overlooking SaddleBrooke was badly shredded. Kris Brown suggested to me that he and I hike up to the overlook above Arroyo Way to replace the damaged flag. “What about snakes?” I asked hesitantly. “No problem,” Kris replied. Then he…
Jim Solon The SaddleBrooke Hiking Club Program Committee will host members of the Southern Arizona Rescue Association (SARA) on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke One Activity Center. SARA is a nonprofit, all-volunteer search and rescue team organization serving Southern Arizona and Pima County since 1958 without a charge for its services.…
Raymond H. Goettsch SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA) has adopted a new logo. Now, this is where Mary Gajeske comes in. Mary has been embroidering items for 20 years, and she has embroidered flags and T-shirts with SPA logos for 17 years. She uses a sewing machine with a hoop attachment for embroidering. When Mary receives…
Dale Leman Each year the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club Trip Committee organizes one or more destination hiking trips. This year Page, Ariz., was chosen for a spring trip. The hiking days were April 16-18. In total, 86 SaddleBrooke residents went on the trip. The keys to these Hiking Club trips are the actual hikes themselves. The…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg The Hiking Club’s main mission is to offer hikes in Arizona to its 600 members; however, most people do not know that the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club also takes responsibility for maintaining Catalina Hills Drive. This long and winding road, which leads to The Preserve, is the road off of SaddleBrooke Boulevard.…
Ruth Caldwell It was a beautiful, sunny day in mid-May on the top of Mount Lemmon! A SaddleBrooke Hiking Club (SBHC) group was looking forward to club guide Marc Humphrey’s wonderful hike along the Meadow Trail and the Mount Lemmon Trail, then the descent to the Aspen Draw Trail. All told, this would be a…
Barb Rutt On a beautiful spring day at the end of March, seven members of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club saddled up and went horseback riding in Saguaro National Park East. They met at Houston’s Horseback Riding Stables, located on Tucson’s northeast side and nestled next to the Rincon Mountains, for the two-hour ride. Houston’s has…