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| no partners | | I decided to go down to Rucker Canyon and check out the repurposed former group campground that recently reopened. Now 10 numbered sites. Most everything else down in the area was the same as when I was there three years ago, with the exception of the Rucker Forest Camp campground at the end of the road, which has been completely removed. Cypress Park campground looks like it did last time but it is not on the current campground list. Though it is closed, local families from Douglas were set up there. They told me the FS doesn't mind that. I do not know if that is true, but it is a longstanding tradition for Douglas folks to come up to camp there by way of Leslie Canyon Road. Before 1994, when the lake filled with rubble following the Rattlesnake Fire, fishing was popular.
For me, the area holds plenty of fond memories of camps and hikes from the past, but I no longer find it appealing. They did a nice job on the campground upgrade though.
The weather was quiet in the Chiricahua Mountains, but as I was driving west toward Tombstone, there was plenty of storm action in the direction I would be driving through to get back to Tucson. I stopped at Tombstone Brewing Company for a beer and was able to look at the radar on my phone, and sure enough some serious storms were moving into the Tucson area from the southeast. By the time I got home about 7:15 PM, storms were still pounding parts of the city and on up to Oro Valley and points west. Plenty of wind damage, etc. from these severe storms. I lucked out, as my drive home along Valencia Road was clear sailing with no flooded roads.  |
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