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The Complete Gringo's Tucson Summertime Visit Survival Guide


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Avoid Summer Visits - It gets pretty damn hot out in the Sonoran Desert
here in Southern Arizona during our summers, and the best advice
regarding visiting then is just don't do it. While the weather in Tucson
is enviable for the remainder of the year, the only reason anybody stays
here during the summer is because they're too poor to leave! If you're
planning on doing a little field collecting during your visit to Southern Arizona,
venturing into our remote desert areas during the summer is very
hazardous and unpleasant due to the extreme heat. If you choose to
ignore this first piece of advice, please don't say you weren't warned,
and be sure you heed the rest!
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Don't Mess with the Gila Monsters and Cacti - The indigenous Sonoran
desert flora and fauna are beautiful and unique. Many also carry built-in
self defense mechanisms with which you may not be familiar.
You may know that cacti have thorns but you'll never really appreciate
that until you're painfully "ambushed" by a jumping cholla cactus right through
your jeans and tennis shoes! The desert is also home to venomous critters
such as rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and scorpions. Use some common sense
and bear this in mind as you're hiking, camping and rockhounding in the desert.
Many species of our native desert wildlife are threatened and endangered and
protected under Arizona state and federal laws.
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Don't Golf during Lightning Storms - Our monsoon storms are often accompanied
by spectacular lightning. Tucson is in fact a geographic center for the scientific
observation and study of lightning. As ridiculous as it sounds, it seems like someone
gets hit and killed almost every year while they're playing golf in Tucson during a storm!
The lightning is often too spectacular to resist observing, but try and use a little
common sense about what you're doing and where you're doing it during one of
our lightning storms. A rockhound's iron prybar held aloft during a monsoon storm
is probably tempting fate just as much as a gesturing to the Almighty with your putter!


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