You can only get to the top of Sabino Canyon by bicycle, tram or Shank's mare. We opted for the easy way up, figuring that hiking down would be a piece o' cake. And it was. Sort of.
This is the view from tram stop #9, the last one on the uphill trip. After that, you walk. Or take the tram down.
There is a half-mile trail up from here which we opted to hike thinking there would be even more awesome views from up there. And there were.....
It also got sunnier and hotter as we climbed. No sweat. Well, actually, quite a lot of it, but not a problem. When we got to the end of the half-mile one of us (and I'm not naming names) said, Hey, why not just go all the way back down on the trail? Off we went, feeling smug. After all, we're looking at downhill all the way, right?
Wrong.
After we'd imbibed all our water and eaten all our sandwiches and the load didn't feel any lighter and we were starting to get tired, one of us (no names) said, Maybe we should go back and take that shortcut we noticed.
Back? That means.... up. Dang. I hate when that happens.
But by then there were some shadows and thus better photo opps. Note that I'm not claiming better photos, just better opps.
All part of the adventure, right?
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