As the crow flies, Mount Lemmon is just 12 miles from our house, but via paved road, it is 46 miles and takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Mt. Lemmon's summit elevation is 9,159'. The elevation at our home is 2735'.
We went to Mt. Lemmon this morning, on a beautiful crisp fall morning, the first time in over 35 years! From our house to the top of Mt. Lemmon, we passed through several biomes, from desert scrub and saguaros, to desert grassland, oak grassland, pine forest, and mixed conifer forest. The views were amazing! The patches of aspen in their fall splendor were beautiful. The thousands of acres burned in the Aspen Fire of 2003 are slowly regenerating and many of the 300 homes lost to the fire, have been rebuilt. It was a perfect morning!
We went to Mt. Lemmon this morning, on a beautiful crisp fall morning, the first time in over 35 years! From our house to the top of Mt. Lemmon, we passed through several biomes, from desert scrub and saguaros, to desert grassland, oak grassland, pine forest, and mixed conifer forest. The views were amazing! The patches of aspen in their fall splendor were beautiful. The thousands of acres burned in the Aspen Fire of 2003 are slowly regenerating and many of the 300 homes lost to the fire, have been rebuilt. It was a perfect morning!
