Saguaro National Park, 4th Tucson Hike

Well, on this my 4th hike in the Tucson desert, I had the most wildlife encounters. I saw lizards/salamanders/geckos (whatever the heck they are), a prairie dog or chipmunk or meerkat or something like that, I’ll let you be the judge, rabbits, more desert rats and a pair of what looked like white-tailed deer. The deer were too scared and too fast to get on video, but trust me, they were there! And there is something that you will NOT see in this video, the part where I got LOST for about 2 hours. I was nearly to the point where I thought I was going to have to break down and call for help (I had the pamphlet that the Park people gave me with their contact numbers on it), but I decided to go another 15-20 minutes and try to find a trailmarker, which after about several hundred feet I did come across. I don’t know what the heck happened, I guess I went out WAY too far to begin with, then when I tried to come back the same way that I went out, I missed that trail, and ended up WAY, WAY in the heck off the main course, still on a people trail, but NOT on a main trail, and after about an hour I was getting kind of worried. Y’know, I’m really, really good with street/city maps, but I guess when it comes to hiking / trail maps, I suck!!! Anyways, I finally made it back, but you will not see the last 3 hours of the hike on this video, as I was really hurrying along, going up and down, trying to find a way back to the car. I know, I’m a goofball!

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