Finger Rock Trail to Mt. Kimball, Tucson, AZ
December 2, 2007

Participants

Dave O'Brien
Colin Dundas
Catherine Neish
Thomas Schad

Description

The Finger Rock trail follows Finger Rock Canyon into the Santa Catalina mountains north of Tucson, and connects with the Pima Canyon trail that leads to Mt. Kimball. A description of the hike can be found here. The short story is that it climbs over 4,000 vertical feet in about 5 miles, but the pain is rewarded with great views from the top.

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Large		 Heading to the trailhead
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Large		 Flowing water in Tucson! There was rain the day before, so there was a reasonable amount of water in the canyon.
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Large		 We all stepped over this fairly obvious warning that this is not the trail, and had to backtrack a little bit
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Large		 Finger Rock, after which the canyon and the trail are named
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Large		 Catherine mimicking Finger Rock
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Large		 Looking back down the canyon towards Tucson and the Tucson Mountains
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Large		 Another view of Finger Rock
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Large		 Thomas and Catherine coming up the trail
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Large		 Snack break!
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Large		 Sunbeams poking through a gap in the rocks
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Large		 At the summit!
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Large		 The Santa Rita peaks poking through the clouds
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Large		 Mt. Lemmon
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Large		 The Rincons
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Large		 The Santa Ritas, again
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Large		 The Tucson Mountains
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Large		 One last shot as we're heading back to the car