Sabino Canyon Walking Tour - Tucson Area Virtual Treadmill Walk - 4k City Walks

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hello Walkers and welcome to Arizona we are in can Sabina Sabino
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Canyon a Coronado National Forest at the Seven Falls I should know that I
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memorized it and now I'm totally drawing a blank um and we're just going to do a
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little nature walk today beautiful beautiful day Desert Canyon here outside
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of Tucson in fact we can kind of see a glimpse of Tucson in the background
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there excuse me and uh it's just going to be uh I
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don't know how long it's going to go we're going to find out I'm going to flip you around
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here my name is Henry I'll be your proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide your
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co-discoverer emphasis on co-discoverer I'm gonna flip you back around oh one more
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one two three there we go and this is the Seven Falls this is
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where we hiked up to it's not running right now but apparently last year it
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was almost hard to get up here and tons of swarrow cactuses and um other
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cactuses Chola cactuses I think they're called just
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to that stuff is your comments I love getting comments you guys the uh I love
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interacting with you it's one of the biggest advantages of this channel one of the biggest
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surprises and things that I enjoy and as we walk down this canul and I might
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mention a few things a few close-ups maybe
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um and what else do I normally say oh yeah it's about 53° here I think that's
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12° Celsius but dry love these
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big um swaro cactuses super fun
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this is a popular Trail uh you can take a shuttle up from the
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base uh cost $8 and you get to skip a mile of walking along the
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flat there and then the trail system actually goes up makes a big loop couple
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of spur trails that sort of thing
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love the texture of the Rocks morning morning morning excuse me
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are you GoPro oh I'm just uh filming for a YouTube channel City walks nice yeah
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you too thanks
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my son down there by that water has taking the road last
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traveled morning morning how are you
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morning go
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ahead we're actually in a Wilderness Area right
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now which means you can't bike up here or do a lot of mechanical stuff
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I was also noticing earlier uh groups of folks groups of hikers and having a great chatty time
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and the sound really bounces around in these rock walls look at these awesome
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SAR it's on the one hand the noise is a little bit much in a natural surrounding
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but people are having a good time out on the trail so it's hard to argue with that you
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know and everybody gets to enjoy these shared public
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lands the way they know best or you know what they find their
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own Joy look at
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these beautiful I don't know how long is going to go um took us about an hour and a half
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to walk up so we may not film the whole Trail um or maybe we will we'll see
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morning morning
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it's
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isn't it cool to see like this Forest
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of sarrow and then this is I think the Chola maybe or maybe it's a different
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one I don't really know my cacti cactuses I think sorry I'm going
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swing around I think this might be the cholo I'm probably getting that name
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wrong too but let me know in the comments section I do do love a gentle
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correction want to get the correct information out there this
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one very cool love it and then over here we've
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got the skeleton of one kind of interesting to see that
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the striated striations striations in this rock here
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pardon me
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love the Shadows creeping
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down I didn't mention the time or the date it is the 6th of January early
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January and about 11:00 a.m.
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I think I'm going to just uh take a second here and
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put on a wide angle
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adapter how does that look a little
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better all right a little wider anyway
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swing you back here we going to go on a switch
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back we'll get back down towards the creek level I do like
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these high up views though they are pretty
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the temperature I mentioned earlier was what was on my phone but I think it is cooler it's probably about 10° fhe
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cooler in the shade look at these awesome sorrow
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here look at these guys over
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here that
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cool morning good morning excuse
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me all right
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I don't think it's going to take us an hour and a half to get back we're making good time here we
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stopped on the way up a few places get photos and uh take off layers that sort of
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thing
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look at that view up
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there make a left turn here I do that
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to I try not to swing this thing around too quickly it can be disconcerting if you're on a treadmill doing your workout
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or rowing machine or something walking at home uh so I try to do it slowly or at least
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give you a heads up that we're going to make a turn or something
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look at these little ends here it's kind of neat little fruits
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maybe or beginning of a new
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section then you got these big prickly pear patches and we get prickly pear up
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in Montana but nothing like that size at least I haven't seen it that size more
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about the size of a silver
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dollar hi there hey how you doing good
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thanks oh they sorry that's all right my bad no worries
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these giant rocks
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here very cool I love the way you know the flooding and flash
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flooding has uh carved out this rock and these Canyons
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I some of it's this Granite looks like a lot of
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quartz and then you get up into the redder darker stuff
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now here is a tricky Wicket this is it I
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think looks like I took a little side route
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look at the the light I think you can see
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it just checking for smudges oh there we go hopefully that
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wasn't too too bad the whole time
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look at this well we'll you'll get up here a little bit and see it nice pool
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where we stopped on the way down big steps big steps
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you get the light peeking through the Peaks down into the valley floor
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ahead some residual water down in here that pool I was talking about
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definitely a lot of foot grabbing rocks in this part of the trail
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luckily and I'm not getting sponsored by this or anything but I got this new I've gotten
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this new DJI osmo pocket 3 and I am just loving it and I like to give them a
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shout out because they really it's not the it's not a camera that does
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everything but what it does it does really well and I'm stoked about
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it especially for the price point it is a little pricey but you know you have to
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pay for quality and given the quality I think the price point is more than fair
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oh I also wanted to mention that they have a nice little Visitor Center at the trail
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head uh bathroom coffee cart volunteers to give you
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information a bunch of different traal Bes in addition to this one oh look at
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that oh so
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nice uh just it's super easy access uh
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you do have to pay you have to have a either pay a day fee or have a pass we
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have a national parks pass so we used that
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we get so much value out of that Parks pass it's amazing um and such a benefit
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to the public to have the parks and the pass if you live in a
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place that's with an easy access of national parks and national monuments and National historic sites often times
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that pass will work for you morning good morning how are you good how are you today very good yeah
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yeah
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people on the trail are almost always happy I I'll tell you something look at
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that beautiful foliage here in January oh look how the
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oh look at that all right so look at how those um sarrow are back lit a little bit they've got that edge light on them
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I think you can there we go isn't that
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pretty
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cool I'm going to take this wide angle thing off
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oh very cool so beautiful
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oh there's a little arch up here kind of in that distance behind
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that Center swarrow there you go you see
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that see if I can point it out again here in a
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minute morning how are you
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thanks all right just behind that little throw that last little knob on the left
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there maybe you can glimpse a little daylight through it pretty cool
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whoa no worries it's about there little above that finger
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point
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morning morning hi
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there morning hi there
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oh excuse me morning good morning how you doing good thanks you
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oops
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you can see this used to be a series of little steps and let the water through
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it looks like maybe a bunch of them have gotten torn out over the
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decades tumbling rocks forced by flash floods or any kind of water really will
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do it look at this love that those
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Sentinels beautiful
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you can definitely see how you would want to do this walk in the morning or
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evening so that you have the benefit of the shade especially as the weather warms
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up right now though it's very pleasant look at this green
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green branches very
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cool and then the purple of this Cactus too let me see if I can get in
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there wild
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nice tunnel of maybe these are mosquit trees and
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hi there
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hello so I'm not I'm not sure how I'm going to edit this out but there was a gentleman uh taking a leak next to the
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trail so if there was a gap in the video that's why I don't know if I
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accidentally got that on camera or not um hopefully
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not not that kind of Chan
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hi there thank you
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sir hi there morning
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there oh man I admire the people that can trail run these Trails seen quite a
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few people doing that this morning I think fewer as the day warms up
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but that is a level of Fitness that I've never
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achieved which is fine
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that
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for
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they do warn that in wetter periods of the year or Seasons or years you because
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of all these creek crossings you're liable to get wet feet so either bring
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some sandals or hi there hi we uh hiking wet
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feet hi there
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for
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this bit of this Trail is really nice and Sandy very easy the whole Trail is
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really um quite achievable quite doable I haven't felt like we still got
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a ways to go but I haven't felt particularly stressed or out of
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breath it's been really nice of course I'm at a lower elevation than I'm used to so that
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helps um I think especially if you had a set of trekking poles or walking
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poles most people would be let me repas that most uh able-bodied
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people would be uh not have too much trouble with this Trail
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h
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no you want a picture like that
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yeah but they said she been very um Cooper and there was no
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alcohol it's interesting to get Snippets of people's
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conversations wonder what the full story is
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so in the morning the bus the little shuttle bus runs every 15 or every 30 minutes I
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guess and then in the afternoon it goes to an
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hour and at least this time of year hi there this time of year it's done
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at I at 4:45 and so you get plenty of
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opportunities and honestly I think it's only another mile or so down to the visitor center and parking
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lot so even if you were to miss it you'd have a fairly easy
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walk back to the
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cars get down into some proper trees I think these are mosquite trees
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but I really I don't know these green ones I'm not sure what they are
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nice breeze coming through
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hearing some interesting bird songs foreign to my ear really
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pretty do like picking those out birds are amazing creatures and
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beautiful and there's so much about them that's interesting but uh I think the appeal to me is just
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being able to identify and and pick them out little guy
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there not particularly good at it but I do enjoy trying
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thank you all right
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there's a mother and kid off to the left in the
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uh riverbed here just having a little exploration of their natural
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surroundings and I just I just love that I think that's great we used to do that a lot with our kids more Melinda doing
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that um but it's such a wondrous experience
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as a kid to be able to discover things and as adults honestly pretty pretty cool to do that's
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one of the reasons I do this channel
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honestly here's a gate up here of I think they close when the trail
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conditions are unsafe oh and Tada here is the trail head at least
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no that's not true it's just a rusting spot
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sorry hi there maybe an
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old spot for the shuttle bus but now they've
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closed off this road to vehicles
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all vehicles I guess and now we got a little ways to go
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before we get to the actual uh shuttle stop and then of course the trail head as I mentioned
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starts at the um at The Visitor Center in the parking
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lot but you can take the shuttle
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Look Back Down out the canyon and some big mountains in the
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distance very cool topography in some houses um very
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cool topography in this area um kind of the low rolling desert and then these big
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mountain ranges jut up big naked Rock um beautiful colors especially in
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early morning and evenings
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this incline I try not to do inclines on these walks
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because I end up huffing and puffing quite a bit and I don't think anybody I wouldn't
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want to hear it so I assume others don't either but sometimes it can't be avoided
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and I'm setting a pretty good Pace
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too look at this walk through the Sorrows love
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it such a cool experience and a good
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workout we're going downtown this afternoon to get some local food and
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explore restaurants and shops and that sort of thing see what there is to see and uh hope my legs are going to be
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a up for another walk hi
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there I'm sure I can rally for at least a short one
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there are people walking on that dirt road but I kind of like this
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Trail a little more amongst oh look at these flowers here I not really flowers
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but fruits maybe traveling Mel would know
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and we can look back up the canyon where we've from once we've come I
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guess almost to the base of that Peak I guess not to the peak itself
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of course but down below kind of where the two V forms there
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anyway I think it's I want to say 3 miles or 2.7 miles
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there and back another 2.7 so that's what we will have
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done on this
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walk it's just such a joy to be able to do this and to share with you
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guys thank you for allowing me to n away um I've been doing a lot
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of uh this thing called a five minute journal or gratitude journal and I've
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been doing that just in my mind all these wonderful things that we get to experience and to be
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grateful for one of the things of course is the
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ability to share this stuff with you and the feedback the feedback is just
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wonderful love the comments not every comment makes it through the YouTube
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filters which is probably a good thing but the ones that do I reply
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to you see the sparkling
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rooftops of uh of Tucson Suburban Tucson out there
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okay gang this I think maybe I was supposed to go to the right there yeah I don't
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want to go off Trail here this is the actual shuttle stop shuttle stop number
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three um and a place where several a couple
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different Trails take off I think um we did the Seven Falls Trail thank you guys
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for joining me I love sharing these with you as I've just said and get a chance to do them myself so thank
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you for joining me thank you for your comments subscribing all that fun stuff we will see you again possibly from
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downtown Tucson probably from somewhere else or possibly from somewhere else until
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then keep on stepping

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