We hiked the Catalina State Park Romero Pools Trail yesterday. This is a beautiful and somewhat challenging hike (at least for the over-sixty crowd). The map above shows our pace and elevation change. The trail goes through the controversial Desert Bighorn Sheep Reintroduction area (read more here and here). The map below shows the other trails in Catalina.
The Romero Pools trail also allows serious hikers to go all the way to Mount Lemon (9157 feet above sea level). I would estimate that we were about one-fourth the way to Mount Lemon although my guess is that the elevation and trail get a lot more difficult (as it was, our pace per mile was pretty slow--see pictures of our many rest pauses here).
The Google Earth Fly-over below (you might need the current web browser plugin to see this here) gives a great picture of the hike. If you look quickly at the start or at then end of video you can see the creek we had to ford before and after the walk. The creek usually has no water, but a full day of rain in Tucson last week continues to bring water down from the Catalina mountains (take an extra pair of socks and a towel if you do this hike when the creek is full).
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