We Made it to the Ridge

Yesterday was a glorious day.  We went back out towards the ridge, taking the trail that the right vertical arrow is pointing at. 

It's a vertical little trail.  Here is Jim slogging up a steep part.  I did not get any pictures of where it gets really difficult, probably due to fear of dropping the camera or falling off the hill side.

We did make it to the top of the ridge (Ringtail Ridge), and this is what we saw.  There's another hill out in the distance.

However, if you walk to the right along the ridge trail for a little bit you can see into Tucson Mountain Park. 

It would be really nice to know where this trail goes, and where it comes down off the ridge.  I've looked at the satellite images on Google Maps and can't really tell where this is and where it might be going.

Coming back down, we saw a trail going off to the right.  It's likely that it goes to that lower out cropping of rock.  That's where we were stopped the other day due to the narrowing of the trail and its total exposure.

If you look at where the arrow is pointing, you can just make out the trail.  That's the section that's about a foot wide.  We thought about walking over to see, but decided not to as we knew that getting down the hill was going to be way worse than going up it.  Those pesky loose rocks are a pain when it's really steep.

It was a good, if strenuous, outing.

So that was yesterday.  This is today.

Cloudy with periods of rain. High 54F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

Most of the rain has gone north of us.  It's cold, so we went to the gym again.  Tomorrow we'll probably be sore and unable to easily dress ourselves.  The gym has battle ropes which are actually fun to use, and incredibly tiring.

Here is a brief sun break during which the palm trees are being battered by the wind. 

Have you seen these? We got a couple at Food City, which caters to the Mexican clientele, I've not seen them at Safeway.  They're limes, but with very low acid and they're actually sweet.  They're available in winter.  If you see them, they're really good.  They're only hardy to 50 degrees, so we will not be attempting to grow a tree.

That's it!  Hiking and complaining about the weather, with an occasional citrus thrown in.