Archive for the ‘Sunset Trail’ Tag
Hunter Trail Parking Lot at Picacho Peak State Park
Hunter Trail
Don On The Hunter Trail
Virginia & Ken On The Hunter Trail
Ken, Virginia & Jim On The Hunter Trail
Looking Down From Hunter Trail
Virginia Checking Out The View
Virginia On The Hunter Trail
Virginia & Jim At The Hunter Trail Saddle
Jim & Virginia At The Hunter Trail Saddle
Ken & Jim On The Hunter Trail
View From Hunter Trail
View From Hunter Trail
Canyon Wren
Very Brown Barrel Cactus On The Sunset Trail
Hiking The Sunset Trail
Sunset Trail
View of Hunter Trail Saddle
Picacho Peak
Picacho Peak State Park Photos by kenne
(Click on any of the images to see a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Driving I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix you cannot miss Picacho Peak, a majestic rock monolith on the west-side of the Interstate. The site of Arizona’s only Civil War battle, involving a Union cavalry patrol from California with Confederate scouts from Texas, the peak has served as a landmark by travelers for hundreds of years.
kenne
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Returning to Marshall Gulch for cover — Images by kenne
This week’s hike was from the Sunset trailhead to Marshall Gulch, up to Marshall saddle and back to the Sunset trailhead. Because of heavy rain and unnerving lightning, we turned back before reaching the saddle. Since one of our cars was at the Marshall Gulch trailhead, all the drivers were taken back to the Sunset trailhead, returning to rescue the remaining wet hikers.
This is my fourth or fifth time hiking Sunset trail, which I prefer to call Sunrise, since the hikes are always in the morning, but I’ve never hiked the trail in the sun — it’s always been cloudy with at least a misty rain. Yesterday was the first time for the rain to be heavy on this hike.
It’s nice to get the much-needed rain on the mountains, only if we could get some of it in the valley. At least the rain on the mountains is flowing down to Sabino Canyon and the dam area — the latest report is that the Sonoran Desert Toads are breast-stroking and piggy-back riding around the pools croaking contentedly. There’s a 30 % chance of rain again today.
As with the mountain streams, hiking and life is all about the flow — “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
“The fact that you were completely immersed in what you were doing, that the concentration was very high, that you knew what you had to do moment by moment, that you had very quick and precise feedback as to how well you were doing, and that you felt that your abilities were stretched but not overwhelmed by the opportunities for action. In other words, the challenges were in balance with the skills. And when those conditions were present, you began to forget all the things that bothered you in everyday life, forget the self as an entity separate from what was going on — you felt you were a part of something greater and you were just moving along with the logic of the activity.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
kenne
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Misty clouds roll into the canyons
Slowly transforming the horizon
Bringing everything closer together
Turning down the mid-morning lights.
Cloud-drops by chance fall
Through the forest canopy
Kissing soft paddles
Released only by the breeze.
Santa Catalina Mountain Images by kenne
Back from the mountain hike
Monsoon clouds darken
As storms build
Over hiking memories.
kenne
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Originally Titled “Sunset On The Trails,” I Renamed For A September 17, 2011 Posting, “Capturing The Moment — The Tree Of Life.” Image by kenne
I’m sharing this image again because of being inspired by photographs by Sonja Bingen, “Tree and Sunset” on one of my favorite blog site, Four Windows Press.
Such a beautiful tree —
so representative of life.
Yet, we often see beauty
only in the foliage and blossoms
nature provides in one of life’s stages.
Why?
Beauty is everywhere –
there is beauty in death,
marking the stage so important
in the cycles of life.
This tree (image of) is amazing,
a sculpture in the face of the sun,
containing the shapes we use
to design our places in this world.
What image do you present
in the face of the sun?
Does it add?
Does it subtract?
Be honest!
kenne
- Capturing The Moment – The Tree of Life (kenneturner.wordpress.com)
- Summer Sunset (princesscupcake95.wordpress.com)
- Sunsets (tammyhelfrich.wordpress.com)
- A foggy sunset (wcs4.blogspot.com)
- The Sunset in Middle East (pinaybyaheras.wordpress.com)
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