Tucson

As if things weren't crazy enough for the month of May, I spent the first two weeks of the month in Tucson, Arizona for work. We have a proving grounds there, and my current project is going to require some travel, especially this summer.

The middle of May isn't generally the best time to hike in Arizona, but that's what we did anyway. Saturday was a burner, but my colleague, SeeChew, and I found a likely trail up the mountain north of Tucson (on recommendation from some locals) and gave it a shot.

We lost the trail, but still managed to get a good hike in. We're about as far as we can go up the canyon, looking back at the city below. Lots of cactus.

On Sunday afternoon, we met up with a couple more people from work and went up to Madera Canyon, south of Tucson. It was much cooler, and a much different environment. Very pretty. Very dry this time of year, but there were a couple little springs with some water and we saw a couple of deer.

We got to the top of the loop trail we were on way later than we intended, so our decent was mostly in the dark. Fortunately, I had a small head lamp and SeeChew had a little flashlight so we made it, but I wouldn't recommend that approach in the future. Here we are, heading back down.