Pine-Strawberry residents have long understood trails protect them from wildfire, now they’ve asked for a perimeter trail and the Forest Service has obliged.
Arizona Trail Association volunteers recently have prepped 4,000 feet of steep sections of the Highline Trail for realignment as part of the restoration initiative.
As the smoke thickened around the school bus, the two teachers carefully covered each child’s nose and mouth with damp pieces of the cloth torn from the bus driver’s shirt.
Undaunted, my daughter trudged up the Highline/Arizona Trail from the Pine Trailhead. She walked this same stretch two years and a pandemic century ago — a different person.