Sabino Canyon

Sure.

My parents, my mother and stepfather, moved from Tucson out to a rural neighborhood northeast of Tucson, very near Sabino Canyon.

So while it was a neighborhood, it, it was very close to the mountains.

Uh, there was a creek that ran within a couple of hundred yards of the house.

Yeah.

So a friend of mine died in the Sabino Canyon entrance to the Sabino Canyon in Arizona.

If you know where that canyon is at north of Flagstaff, it's a canyon that leads basically to the flatlands before you get to the Grand Canyon.

A couple A-10s flying into that canyon with a low overcast.

I fought hard against that.

That would've been Sabino Canyon on the table, Mount Lemmon, uh, other beautiful sites in Arizona like you said.

It's all about conservation as well, and being able to protect our public lands.

Fought hard against that in partnership with other members, Republican ones as well, from Montana and other states that also value this quite a bit.

I run my triathlon camps down there in the spring, and I'm down there for big chunks of the winter.

And I was out in Sabino Canyon on a trail system.

I will say not a very aggressive trail system, but keep an eye for the audience.

I'm born and raised in Chicago, so I have zero experience with any trails, any hills, or any desert situations.

Yeah, right.

Uh, and then after Mount Lemmon, down to Sabino Canyon.

Uh, climbing Mount Lemmon from the desert floor to the summit is tough and usually takes more than a full day, but I wanted to take my time and enjoy it over four days.

Wow, okay.

Yeah, it sounds like, uh, it sounds like he got stuck with everything else, though.

S- it seems like...

And what is it? Sabino Canyon especially, there's a lot of, uh, flash flooding and-

Yeah.

I had a brother at the time that was living in Tucson as an art and he was an architect.

And I went to visit him my junior year of high school and we went hiking at Sabino Canyon.

And I do have a deep connection, a deep, deep connection to nature.

And I love the mountains and I love being outside.