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Sabino Canyon Walking Tour - Tucson Area Virtual Treadmill Walk - 4k City Walks
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Mar 19, 2025
We are in Tucson for a couple days and we love to hike. Luckily Tucson has a ton of outdoor activities to explore. The trail to Seven Falls one of the great hikes near Tucson and is just on the edge of the city and very easily accessible. This virtual nature walk starts above the falls and I take you back to the shuttle bus stop. It's about 2.7 miles long. The shuttle bus requires a ticket but takes you from the Visitor Center up to the trail head. You can walk that as well but it's out on the flat and if it's hot out, I'd recommend the shuttle. I love filming these virtual walks for you all and I love getting feedback so please leave a comment with your thoughts. The next walk will be a proper City Walk in Tucson. Cheers and keep on steppin' -H #walkingtour #CityWalks #virtualwalk #walkathome #treadmillworkout #treadmillscenery #virtualtreadmill Please feel free to share or embed these videos with others or direct them to the searchable website https://citywalksvirtualtours.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CityWalks Buy me a Coffee at https://ko-fi.com/citywalksvirtualwalkingtours Paypal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CityWalks Instagram: @citywalks_virtualtravel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCityWalks Twitter: @walks_city You might be interested in our other Channels: CityWalks360 - 360 VR walking videos: tinyurl.com/yg5dkewu TravelingMel - FamilyTravel - https://youtube.com/TravelingMel
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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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beautiful thank you to our patreon supporters uh I got a new supporter just
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that or PayPal of course not necessary um what I really appreciate in addition
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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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