Mon Feb 13 is a another beautiful day here. Even the bad weather days are good. Each night the temperature goes down into the 40's, sometimes the high 30's (this morning 37), but by 10 or 11 o'clock it's very comfortable. I've been able to wear shorts comfortably every day.
We have one remaining "to do". We've heard that the drive up to a ski area near here is a beautiful drive, and we wanted to see for ourselves where people can actually ski in a desert.
The drive was indeed beautiful, if not magnificent. It seems I've used the word magnificent many times while we've been out West, but this area of our country is really so vast, and so geologically diverse, it defies description, so I'll just keep using the word magnificent.
Today was no different. Magnificent.
Less than 30 miles from our campsite here on base at an altitude of 1,600 feet, we drove to 8,300 feet, the temperature changed 30 degrees, and we were in snow. I don't think we have ever made such a rapid ascent in a car in such a short time.
On the way to the Mount Lemmon ski area we traveled through the little village of Summerhaven which looks like a mountain community Western NC. We traveled through Coronado National Forest, which is a part of the Santa Catalina Mountains on the way up.
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| A long, straight highway in the valley |
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| Overlooking Tucson from the Santa Catalina Mountains |
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| The rock formations look like they could fall any moment |
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| The road up the mountain |
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| Mimi got to the top |
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| And there really is snow. It is supposed to snow more tomorrow. It is truly amazing to see this in the middle of a desert |
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