Mt. Lemmon

Today for fun we decided to drive up to Mt. Lemmon.  Talk to most anyone in Tucson and they ask, "Have you been to Mt. Lemmon?"  

During the winter it's a ski resort (open for about a week or so a year we're told).  They've got one ski lift and a handful of runs.   During the rest of the year you can go and visit the shops and ride the ski lift.  

"Shops" is misleading.  We expected a few little stores that we could look around in.  There was a little souvenir shop and a food shack.  The souvenir shop smelled like skunk (I'm not trying to be mean about it--I think they actually were sprayed by a skunk recently.  You can't fake a skunk smell).  We bought a cookie roughly the size of the moon and walked around the area for a bit and enjoyed the outdoors.  It was much cooler which was really nice as it has been mid-90s here.  There was green everywhere--it was awesome. 

We recently bought a great backpack carrier and Noelle seemed to enjoy being toted around.

We saw some wildlife and some un-wild life (there was a cat with a collar walking around randomly).  Even Noelle enjoyed a little snack.

On the way home towards the bottom of the mountain we stopped and took some pictures with the locals.  They are huge.

The one we posed by is a medium sized one.

Welcome to the desert!