Michael Caryl On Wednesday, November 21 Byron Cotter, a noted local photographer, will present “Photographing Nature on a Hike.” The talk will focus on opportunities and techniques for photography on a hike. Topics will include options for equipment, some basics of camera use and what elements to consider when composing shots. The talk will also…
Myrna Simms On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, a docent from Tohono Chul Botanical Garden will speak to us about plant diversity in the Sonoran Desert. While the cactus is the most visible plant we see at first glance, there is a lot more going on in our desert than these spined succulents. Using basic botany,…
Karen Gray On June 28 nine SaddleBrooke hikers left for the cool environment of Mt. Lemmon to hike the Marshall Gulch/Aspen Loop trail. We left at 7:00 a.m. with a temperature of 80 degrees and arrived at the trail head almost two hours later to a cool 71 degrees. It was a beautiful, sunny day…
Elisabeth Wheeler and Larry Allen Dramatic viewpoints highlight the eight-mile Rim Trail from Grand Canyon Village to Hermit’s Rest. Forty SaddleBrooke hikers in four groups hiked through pinyon pine and Utah juniper along the South Rim to explore these famous views. Trail Overlook provided the best view of the precipitous Bright Angel Trail which plummets…
Susan Hollis On April 30 over ninety members of the SaddleBrooke Hiking club traveled to Grand Canyon National Park for three days of hiking. Eleven hiking guides: Larry Allen, Roy Carter, Dave Corrigan, Howie and Elaine Fagan, Susan Hollis, Randy Park, Rob Simms, Dave Sorenson, Don Taylor and Elisabeth Wheeler, helped lead a total of…
A generous donation by the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club enabled over 60 children from Erickson Elementary School in Tucson to participate in the Environmental Education Program of Oracle State Park. Volunteer guides, including Dave Corrigan and Phil McNamee of SaddleBrooke, guided small groups of students on trails teaching them to use their five senses. Each…
Susan Bush Residents of SaddleBrooke are invited to come to the Hiking Club May meeting where an EMT member of the Golder Ranch Fire Department will speak about using common sense and prior planning to avoid injury or illness while hiking in Arizona and how rescues are conducted. The meeting will be held at…
Elisabeth Wheeler When the Oracle Passage of the Arizona National Scenic Trail was offered to the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club to be Stewards, Mary Croft stepped forward to be a Co-Steward. Mary has done volunteer work on the Arizona Trail for many years. She has been co-steward of the Oracle Passage for the past three years.…
Frank Earnest Members of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club initiated a new effort to hike the Arizona Trail (AZT) beginning in January 2017. The Arizona Trail is an 840-mile National Scenic Trail starting at the border with Mexico and ending at the Utah border. Two groups of SBHC members completed the AZT in years past. The…
Dave Corrigan April 18 through 20 the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club enjoyed a fabulous trip to Page, Arizona. Page is located near the beautiful shores of Lake Powell and was created when the Glen Canyon Dam was constructed on the Colorado River. The area offers some of the finest hiking in the Southwest. The club had…