Marilyn and I rode our bikes on Sunday morning. I rode up the Tonto Tank Trail to try to get a sunrise photo from a location I had scouted earlier, but I’m not happy with it. I should have gotten there earlier and had my 50mm lens with me. I brought my NEX-7 with a 35mm lens; I had never tried to ride with my NEX-7 before. I had to make some minor adjustments to the harness of my Think Tank Digital Holster in order to ride comfortably. I initially had it too low and it interfered with pedaling.
I finished riding up Tonto Tank and met Marilyn on the Pemberton:
I tried, unsuccessfully, to get Marilyn to ride up the Boulder Trail with me. The Boulder Trail leads to the Marcus Landslide Trail. It’s very pretty up there, but it has more elevation gain than Marilyn was willing to do. I took this photo on my way up the Boulder Trail.
A photo of a large boulder on the Boulder Trail:
This boulder was on the Marcus Landslide Trail.
I met up with Marilyn at the intersection of Bluff and Pemberton. We continued on Pemberton where I got this photo of the crested saguaro near Granite Tank.
A closer look at the crested saguaro and its companion to the right. Both saguaros have fire damage from the Rio Fire back in the 90s. Damage on the crested saguaro is not as evident on this side as it is on the other side.
This large, multi-armed saguaro can be seen off to the south along the new section of Pemberton.
