What an unusual post, Jbee! You - completely clothed - in several pictures. That is so rare it looked very odd! 
Also the terrain, watered by precipitation is less like the sun baked desert you often portray.
Tucson and possibly AZ seem to have had an unusual amount of snow in recent months. Or is that just me being confused by you resurrecting snow posts of old?
You didn't say if your new pack was good?
Keep hiking!
John
It may LOOK odd to you? It IS odd for me to be clothed. It is a unique experience for me. Me hiking with clothing on is like a handful during any ten years. I’m glad that those long johns and t shirt are as comfortable as they are.
When it rains in the winter, there is usually snow on the mountains where it is freezing. We are in a long and extreme drought since last spring, broken only by a short deluge of a monsoon season. Probably your imagination, but the snow fall can stay up there for days and be seen for weeks.
I didn’t?! Mistake, I’ll have to proof read and check on that. The new bag did all that it was supposed to do. It worked great. I took it up Picacho Peak last Thursday, a difficult trail that is more of a climb. We were climbing with steel cables on cliff sides quite a bit. I did it partly to overcome excessive fear of heights, but eventually it beat me. I’ll have to go back and work on that some more. All clothed, but for an interlude resting in the sun. The clothing outfit worked great in the chilly shadows of the mountain. The pack works better than the old rig. Before, the bottles would swing about when climbing. They would shift weight and bang into things and me. Now, they are tight in a pouch. Those precarious rugged rock surfaces that I was crawling on would have been much more of a problem in the old rig. It will fit my overnight gear much more efficiently, too. Definitely worth the extra half of a pound.
I wrote a trip report and took pics, but, I’m deciding if it is material for my blog. It is about personal issues and I was clothed most of the time. Another part was about being in shape and exercise in order to accomplish more when nude opportunity presents itself.
