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Hiking The Yetman Trail 5 comments

Yetman Trail is located in the Tucson Mountains Park west of Tucson

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Old Stone House off Yetman Trail (kenneturner.wordpress.com)
When The Moment Counts

Posted March 13, 2012 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Life, Nature, Photography

Tagged with Hiking, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Mountains, Tucson Mountains Park, Yetman Trail

When The Moment Is Right . . . 2 comments

“Cialis Moment” — Image by kenne

Never one to miss a photo opt, while making a rest stop at the old stone house off the Yetman Trail, two of my fellow hikers took advantage of the old bathtub to create a “cialis moment.”No exactly in two tubs out in the middle of nowhere, but it’s the moment that counts — “capturing the moment.”

kenne

Those Cialis Commercials… (sowhatsthedealwith.wordpress.com)
Old Stone House Off Yetman Trail

Posted March 13, 2012 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Photography

Tagged with cialis moment, Hiking, Old Sone House, Sonoran Desert, When The Moment Is Right, Yetman Trail

Old Stone House off Yetman Trail 3 comments

Old Stone House off Yetman Trail

Sherry Bowen, a typesetter and later city editor for the Arizona Daily Star, had lived in Rockford, Illinois, but moved to Tucson in the late twenties with the hope that the change in climate would help Ruby Bowen’s serious heart serious heart condition. They lived in town for a few years, before homesteading on 2,000 acres in the Tucson Mountains and started building the stone house in 1931. It took one year to build the house, during which time the Bowen’s lived in a cabin nearby.

At that time, Tucson was still a small town. The Tucson Mountains terrain was a wilderness frequented by mountain lions and bighorn sheep. Ruby kept a diary while they were building the house. In the diary, she wrote about seeing mountain lions and bighorn sheep in the hills above the house. In one entry, she wrote of an incident where a mountain lion tried to climb through the window of her cabin while she was cooking some meat!

Ruby’s heart condition did improve, and the Bowen’s had a child in 1943. In 1944 they moved to New York, where Sherry worked for the AP. The land around their house was incorporated into the Tucson Mountain Park in 1983.

kenne

(Copy for this entry was prepared from the Tucson Hiking Guide written by Betty Leavengood. Additional Material: GVHC Library File 73)