spent the morning trying to find new rubber latches
for the hatch on the tear. The old ones are about to
come apart. No luck.
In the afternoon I drove to the top of the Catalina
Mountains (above where I first camped) to a little
village called Summerhaven that burned almost
completely in a forest fire in 2003. Tucson is at
4000ft and Summerhaven at 8000. Passed many large
patches if snow. Lots of bike riders in both
directions. I think my next biking goal is to ride
that route. Starting to think about spending next
winter here. Saw yellow-eyed juncos.
One of the campgrounds in the Catalina Mountains, part
of Coronado National Forest, is named after Gordon
Hirabayashi, a Japanese-American who fought internment
during WWII. The camp was originally an "honor
prison", no walls or fences, and Hirabayashi did hard
labor there building the road up the mountain. He was
exonerated by the supreme court in 1987, the
prosecution having kept from the courts information
which showed that the Japanese in the US were not a
threat.
This evening I heard a great jazz concert at the UofA.
Members of the jazz faculty and famous bass player
Rufus Reid who blew the lid off the hall.
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