Mt. Lemmon

Picture overload...but we had an amazing day in the Coronado National Forest. We drove up to Mt. Lemmon and spent about 3 hours hiking the Marshall Gulch. Starting elevation was 7500, up to 8300 and then back down. Fortunately we got to take a break midway. Mitch got a work call so a huge climbing rock made a perfect rest stop. The views of the bighorn fire burning were crazy. Severe tears back most of Summerhaven and Mt. Lemmon burned in a forest fire. They’ve already closed the Pima Canyon and Finger Rock areas of the Catalinas, and evacuated people from homes. The girls are seeing so much that they’d never see in Illinois and really seemed to enjoy this hike. We rewarded ourselves with giant chocolate chip cookies from the Cookie Cabin!