Tucson Mts: Star Pass, Bowl , and Yetman Trails Loop

PLEASE do not sign up unless you are sure you will be attending.
5.5 mile Loop
500' Elevation gain
Rating: Beginner/Intermediate
RESTRICTIONS **No dogs, firearms or tobacco
NOTE: Links are in BOLD
This hike will start at the Sarasota Trail head.

CLICK here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TX_mMoPlYliH2yXoaH13IFSZzyw&usp=sharing) for a map of the location and the hike route.

This hike will be in Tucson Mountain Park (http://webcms.pima.gov/cms/One.aspx?pageId=1539) (TMP) which is a 20,000 acre Sonoran desert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert) nature preserve located a few miles west of Tucson. TMP holds one of the most magnificent saguaro forests in the world and is managed by the Pima County department of Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation (http://webcms.pima.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=18489). There is a TMP map here (https://webcms.pima.gov/UserFiles/Servers/Server_6/File/Government/Natural%20Resources%20Parks%20and%20Recreation/Parks/Tucson%20Mountain%20Park/TMP_Map.pdf).

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This hike will follow the Star Pass (http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-starr-pass-is-homage-to-stage-driver-not/article_bc7e9d7d-dacd-59a2-8432-d88cfdde28d6.html) trail through the Cat's Crack and when we are behind Little Cat we will pick up the new connector Bowl trail to the David Yetman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yetman) Trail.http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/7/6/600_457862422.jpeg

We will then take the Yetman west to the west end of the Starr Pass Trail and follow it back to the parking area at the end of Sarasota Blvd.

Please Bring: 2+ liters of water, food for a snacks/lunch, sun protection.

If you are new to the group please read these:

About the Tucson Hiking Meetup Group (https://www.meetup.com/tucsonhiking/about/)
Tucson Hiking Meetup Group - No Show Policy (http://files.meetup.com/372195/No%20Show%20Policy.pdf)
Hike Rating Scale (http://files.meetup.com/372195/Hike%20Rating%20Scale.pdf)

Hike at your own risk

If you have questions email me (http://www.epicroadtrips.us/contact/index.php) or call me at 304.290.8066 (NO TEXTING)

WV-Mike

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Some background info: David Yetman (https://swc.arizona.edu/users/david-yetman)

David Yetman is research social scientist and has been at the Southwest Center since 1992. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Arizona in 1972. Yetman’s research has been primarily directed towards the state of Sonora, its indigenous people, their history, and how they have incorporated native resources into their lives. His books include Sonora: An Intimate Geography (1996); Scattered Round Stones: A Mayo Village in Sonora, Mexico (1998); Guarijíos of the Sierra Madre: Hidden People of Northwest Mexico (2002); and The Ópatas: In Search of a Sonoran People (2010). He has also written extensively on native uses of plants in Sonora.

His Mayo Ethnobotany: Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico (2002, co-authored by Thomas R. Van Devender) combines ethnohistory and ethnobotany. His 2007 volume The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography of Columnar Cacti documents columnar cacti throughout the Americas, while a smaller work The Organ Pipe Cactus (2006) describes the natural history of the remarkable plant for which a U.S. Park Service National Monument is named. In addition, Yetman is author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is a frequent present of lectures on deserts, their people and their natural history.

In addition to his writing, Yetman served for nine years as host for the PBS documentary television series The Desert Speaks and currently produces and hosts the PBS series "In the Americas with David Yetman." Yetman received an Emmy Awards in 2007 and 2014 for his documentary television work.

Some background info: Starr Pass (http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-starr-pass-is-homage-to-stage-driver-not/article_bc7e9d7d-dacd-59a2-8432-d88cfdde28d6.html)

The Starr name, the moniker of two resorts and what would be 22nd Street west of Interstate 10, came along in the early 1990s as a tribute to 19th-century stagecoach driver Richard Starr, who pioneered a stagecoach trail through the Tucson Mountains.

Built in 1884, Starr's trail was a fast-track route from Tucson to Quijotoa, a mining boomtown 70 miles to the southwest. Starr also ran a telegraph line between Quijotoa and Tucson, but the mine went bust, and a fire destroyed the town in 1889. Today almost nothing remains.