It was very hot in the Wilderness of Rocks section of this hike. It was nice to get to Lemmon Pools. There wasn't as much water flow going into the pools, but the water depth looked about the same as it was last year when I went last year near this time, but the water temperature was much warmer this year.

I talked to the fire lookout at Lemmon Rock. He said that there were 10 fires this weekend that were left unattended - so not only are folks disobeying the "no fires" restriction, but then they are leaving it to start more fires in our hot and dry forest. With this much ineptitude on the part of forest patrons, I'm all for the Forest Service shutting down the Coronado until monsoon season. Dave, the lookout, told me that the reason that he wasn't there when I visited two weeks ago was that he was in Flagstaff graduating from NAU. If you see him, be sure to congratulate him.