Hiking From Marshall Gulch Up To Marshall Saddle On To Wilderness Rocks Trail   5 comments

It was Friday, four weeks ago that lightning started the Bighorn Fire. Crews on Thursday switched into the mop-up mode. The fire has burned 118,710 acres or 187 sq miles and is 58% contained. We’ve told that the fire burned parts of Marshell Gulch and the Wilderness Rocks area. This reblog is of a posting from August 16, 2011, containing a video of the hike. I had to think that this beautiful area on Mt. Lemmon has been scarred. We are still waiting for the monsoon rains to start and put out the remaining fires. — kenne (If you don’t see the video in this reblog, click on Becoming is Superior to Being)

Posted July 3, 2020 by kenneturner in Information

5 responses to “Hiking From Marshall Gulch Up To Marshall Saddle On To Wilderness Rocks Trail”

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  1. Beautiful. I hope this area has been untouched by the fire

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    jomillyblog
    July 4, 2020 at 4:39 am

  2. Very enjoyable video on one of the highlight Naturalist hikes!

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    Deb
    July 5, 2020 at 6:39 pm

  3. I could share some personal thoughts here on what exactly Mount Lemmon means to me.
    As a small child of six years old, my family moved to Tucson from Connecticut in 1958. As a kid I sorely missed the greenery and the “babbling brooks” in the East.

    Then one magical day I went to school to find a large, yellow school bus there waiting to take us kids on a field trip to Bear Canyon. The bus was hot and struggled up the grade on the Catalina Highway. As we climbed up the mountain I began to realize that it was becoming noticeably cooler. When we got off the bus we emerged in the pines in Bear Canyon. I’d never seen anything like this. This was as good as Connecticut!

    In later years (about 1980) I took a date up the mountain in my 1968 Chevy Impala. We just about didn’t make it! We got out and had a splendid picnic in the pines and fires in Bear Wallow. I have many, many wonderful memories of the Mountain – too many to relate in this comment section.
    This is a very rare, unusual and wonderful place. How many places are there on our planet where there is a lush mountaintop forest thriving surrounded on all sides by a very hot and dry desert? There are a few other “sky islands” like this in the Southwest but let’s face it, Mount Lemmon is still special.

    The forest of large firs near the summit almost reminded me of scenes that I’d seen in the Sierra Nevada Mountains! It pains me to know that some of those large firs burned in the Bighorn Fire but hopefully they didn’t all burn. The fire might’ve also burned at a low intensity in some areas especially near the top where there might’ve been a little more moisture.

    I hope you can get some more recent pictures later.

    Regards,
    Fred M. Cain,
    Topeka, IN (former Tucson Resident)

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    Fred M. Cain
    July 14, 2020 at 5:15 am

  4. Thanks for sharing your memories.

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    kenneturner
    July 14, 2020 at 6:05 am

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