Our Monday hiking group broke into two this past week. Bruce, our leader wanted to hike the Peralta Trail - this is quite a strenuous hike with 1500' of elevation and Jack and I felt that it would be a bit too much for our second hike of the season with the group. So Bruce suggested an easier hike to Pass Mountain in Usuary Park. We were a group of five that did this hike - 5 miles and 550' of elevation. Monday saw a change in the weather and it had turned quite a bit cooler - it was only 48F and quite breezy when we left at 8am but the skies were bright blue and clear!
We hiked to that saddle between the hills with the yellow streak of volcanic "tuff". It's a fairly easy trail (meaning not full of small and large rocks to walk on) and the elevation is quite gradual.
SOME of the rocks are big though!
Getting closer to the top
So - Jack - do you think you can just push that big rock over the edge?
The view from the saddle - Four Peaks is in the distance. The trail continues all around Pass Mountain for another 7.8 miles but we only take a side trail to a cave, then continued about 1/2 mile to a place for our lunch before we hike down from the saddle. After all - this was supposed to be an "easy" hike! On the way down I took this picture of a saguaro cactus giving himself a prickly hug!
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