Ranger Sarah view more cool cave features in Coronado Cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah view more cool cave features in Coronado Cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah continues down to the floor of Coronado Cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah with one of the cave features at Coronado Cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah starts the climbing over large boulders at the entrance to Coronado Cave
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah has arrived at Coronado Cave and is reading up on the cave before venturing inside.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah climbs up the steps as the trail gets steeper. Ranger Sarah is not a fan of stairs.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
The Trail gets steeping and rockier as Ranger Sarah gets closer to Coronado Cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah hikes the Cave Trail to the Coronado Cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah heads up the Cave Trail, a half mile steep hike awaits for her.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah reads about the Coronado Cave Trail before she starts the hike up to the cave.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah is in Mexico. She sits at the border monument on the Mexican side
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah at US/Mexico border monument number 102. Standing her she is in both countries at the same time.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah sits at the border on the US side at the border monument
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah has made it to the US/Mexico Border
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah found some Comanche paper wasp, scientifically known as Polistes comanchus, is a species of paper wasp found from northwestern Mexico to the south central United States.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah can just barely make out a fence ahead that is the US/Mexico border as she nears the end of the Yaqui Ridge Trail.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah hikes along the Yaqui Ridge Trail (part of the Arizona National Scenic Trail) heading for the US/Mexico Border.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah looks at an interesting rock outcropping as she hikes down the Yaqui Ridge Trail towards Mexico.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah takes in the view, everything in the distance is Mexico. Ranger Sarah has to descend 600 feet in elevation from the ridge to the US/Mexico Border.
— at Coronado National Memorial.
Ranger Sarah found a Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) a plant indigenous to the deserts of the SW United States and Northern Mexico. While semi-succulent and a desert plant, Ocotillo is more closely related to the tea plant and blueberries than to cactuses.