Brown Mountain Trail

Brown Mountain Trail is at Tucson Mountain Park, west of Tucson and the Tucson Mountains.  This is the southeastern edge of Brown Mt. The first climb of the day, a switchback trail that clambered almost 700 vertical feet in less than 2000 horizontal feet.

At the peak of Brown Mt. it seemed
you could see forever. Those most
distant peaks are 25 miles away.

This panorama is from the top of Brown Mt.
That ridge that soars even higher,
marks the Tucson Mountains.
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The saguaros were many and mostly quite tall.
Red rocks in this wash made for a
desert scheme in the colors of Christmas.