Mt. Lemmon deserves an entire day (maybe two!), and the most reasonable way to do that is to spend the night in Tucson. We’ll start early from Phoenix on Thursday, to hit Sweetwater and a couple of Tucson hot-spots before turning in fairly early. We’ll be up before dawn on Friday to begin our trek up Mt. Lemmon, hoping to get to the top for a late lunch in the restaurant there. From there, we’ll head pretty much straight back to Phoenix, to arrive about 7. Given the handful of environmental zones as we work our way up the mountain, we should see desert, scrub, transition and montane species—a nice variety, to be supplemented by whatever waterfowl may be hanging around Sweetwater and any other pond we visit. Resident species as well as early neotropic nesters should be available.
Limit: 7
Difficulty: 2 (long days, with plenty of walking, but mostly even surfaces)
Restrictions: All participants must have been vaccinated against Covid.
Leader: Kathe Anderson