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Mount Wrightson and Mount Hopkins were named in their honor. The Crest Trail’s platform is blown out of bedrock on the north side of the volcanic summit block.
Situated among the pine-blanketed slopes of the Santa Rita Mountains, this high desert valley is part of the 25,260-acre Mount Wrightson Wilderness and is a popular getaway for Tusconites.
On Nov. 15, 1958, six Boy Scouts began their hike up Mount Wrightson, then called Mount Baldy, in the Santa Rita Mountains, totally unaware that three of them would not be coming back alive.
Fort Huachuca, AZ. - With guidons in hand and sweat-soaked faces, commanders from the 2-13th Aviation Regiment recently conquered Mount Wrightson, reaching its summit after meeting the physical ...
Telescopes perched on Mount Graham, Mount Lemmon, Mount Bigelow, Kitt Peak and on Mount Hopkins were all at least potentially threatened during this season’s wave of wildfires.
Tragedy 'Mt. Baldy' surrenders its secret at last '58 tragedy took place on peak, now called Wrightson Dan Shearer Green Valley News Apr 7, 2012 Updated Nov 15, 2017 DAN SHEARER / GREEN VALLEY NEWS ...
Over 5-thousand feet in elevation, temperatures are a good 15 degrees cooler than Tucson but the Old Baldy Trail is one of the most difficult routes to the summit of Mount Wrightson.
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“The Mount Wrightson Wilderness was extremely picturesque at sunrise and sunset and was full of deer, turkey and signs of wolves or a bear,” Suckow said.
Mount Hopkins Lightning sparked a small fire on the west side of Mount Wrightson on July 2. The fire lasted just two days.