Rob,

A number of years back I had the pleasure of going to Tucson with a good friend and fellow herper,Travis.We would stay at a friend of his dads, a retired bio professor,who lives in TUCSON.

On the way into Tucson, we found some mountain, I beleived it was called Devils peak. It was mid-dasy by then, about 100 degrees out so we hiked to the top of the mountain. I felt good.
Invigorated. Young. *LOL*

I wore no hat(We dont need no stinking hats) and no sun screen.

Afterwards we went to the Arizona Desert Museum. Awesome place. Liked it alot except for the Mountain Lion(I dont condone keeping of big cats in captivity..sorry guys)IMO....
We got there and I noticed that I was a little....err....light headed...and a little...err.....weak...and alittle ...err...dizzy. I beleive that I suffered a temporary black out due to sunstroke. I had to sit down on the walking path to regain my composure. Nice eh?

Then, later that early evening it rained. It poured! So hard as to make road hunting impossible. So we didnt.

WE saw a few Snakes that trip, a rattler I believe, and a patchnosed snake, if my memory serves me right.

Wonderfull place Tucson.

Magical..truly..IMO

But bring a hat...

I personally own a SOMBRERO. A big one. and SPF 100

No more human heat receptor head for me...uh-uh :0)

Cheers

Fred Albury

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• Great time speaking at IHS - Carmichael, Tue Aug 2 15:43:54 2005
• Congrats!! - Fred Albury, Tue Aug 2 16:35:24 2005
• RE: Congrats!! - Carmichael, Tue Aug 2 18:12:41 2005
• RE: Great time speaking at IHS - gila7150, Tue Aug 2 18:09:36 2005
• RE: Great time speaking at IHS - Carmichael, Wed Aug 3 14:01:34 2005
• I would have done the same thing.... - Mike Stefani, Tue Aug 2 18:37:30 2005
• Rob....MY experience with TUCSON Monsoons ..... - Fred Albury, Tue Aug 2 19:01:19 2005
• RE: Great time speaking at IHS - joeysgreen, Wed Aug 3 05:56:00 2005
• RE: Great time speaking at IHS - Carmichael, Wed Aug 3 14:04:03 2005