Sagebrush personal hiking blog
The trail continues along Oracle Ridge, slowly descending to the hills below. I meet “Detour”, and we walk a few miles together in conversation before he stops for breakfast.
Today we are over a quarter the way through this trip.
I passed a dozen tents near Cathedral Rock junction, where the trail starts to climb out of a box canyon.
But instead of going over the saddle, the trail turn toward one of the walls, beginning a climb up to Mount Lemmon.
At the next trail junction I meet “Boomerang”, who bikes or hikes a section of trail, backtracks, and moves his van to the next section, hence the name.
The trail passes by a small lake, named “The Lake“ on maps. Is this the only natural lake on the AZT?
After climbing up and over a saddle, I descend down to Catalina Highway, past a couple of very busy campgrounds, and enter into a series of remarkably deep canyons with steep rock walls.
