L-R: Dan Collins, Louise Kaufman, Bill Kaufman, Tim Ralph, Maribeth Morehart, Dan Granger, Susan Ferguson, B.J. Martin, Jim Martin, and Kenne Turner
June through August each year, some of the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists (SCVN) guide hikes for the public on Mt. Lemmon — SCVN Summer Friday hikes. (The U.S. Forest Service maintains over 150 miles of trails in the Santa Catalina Mountains.) Last Friday, some of us gathered on Mt. Lemmon to hike Aspen Draw trail together and celebrate the end of the SCVN summer hiking season, followed by a potluck lunch at Marshall Gulch.
Before going on the Aspen Draw trail hike, we stopped by the Mt. Lemmon Visiter’s Center and Maribeth ask fellow SCVN naturalist, Paul Kriegshauser, (Paul also volunteers at the Center information desk each Friday) to have lunch with us.
Paul brought along a very special treat, Mt. Lemmon apples, which Maribeth cut into slices for everyone — Yes, apples do grow on Mt. Lemmon!
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“In 1880, the American pioneer botanists John Gill Lemmon and Sara Plummer were married in Oakland, California. Sara, born in Maine and college-eduated in Massachusetts as an artist and a teacher, had moved to California for health reasons. John was an established California botanist, and Sara’s love of plants quickly drew her, too, into the professional botanical field. Shortly after their marriage, the Lemmons decided to honeymoon in Tucson: they called it their “two-year botanical wedding trip.” They to the new train to Arizona, and soon found themselves drawn to a huge mountain range north of town — the Santa Catalinas.”
— from “A Natural History of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona.” by Richard C. Brusca and Wendy Moore
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Nice. Thanks, Kenne.
Dan
Dan, your feedback is most appreciated. See you Friday.
Reblogged this on Becoming is Superior to Being and commented:
The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists will begin the Fall Friday Hikes October 6th. Our hike will be the Sycamore Canyon Trail and I’m the Lead Guide. The first three hikes are at the 6,000 ft. level before beginning our hikes in Sabino Canyon. — kenne