January 11, 2025

Saguaro and Cat Mountain
Tucson Mountains, Arizona
2024

We’re back in the southwest for a while, and spent time in Tucson just before and after the New Year. Cat Mountain, just west of town, has quite a movie history; because it is situated adjacent to the movie sets at Old Tucson, it has appeared in the background of many westerns filmed there since it was first built in 1939. I should probably make a climb to the top one of these days so that whenever I see it one of those old movies filmed there I can say “I’ve been on top of that mountain.”