troy @thesouthernpath.com · 21/09/2026Monsoon storm north of Tucson August 23 2026. The storm is far enough away that there’s not a lot of thunder to accompany the lightning. I haven’t altered the speed at all and this went on for more than an hour. 060
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 14/09/2026White-tailed deer in the shade of a chain-fruit cholla cactus. Tucson, AZ 0140
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 13/09/2026Acorn woodpecker. Santa Rita Mountains South of Tucson. 🪶 217016
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 07/09/2026Swallowtail butterfly on a Mexican Bird-of-paradise in Tucson AZ 0163
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 05/09/2026Hiking in Pusch Ridge Wilderness / Catalina State Park in Tucson, AZ 081
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 01/09/2026Rock wren or canyon wren, not sure which. It’s on a rock in a canyon though. 🪶 0110
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 31/08/2026Kudelski Nagra III reel-to-reel tape recorder. Built in 1968 and still records and plays beautifully. 0183
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 31/08/2026Odd deposits / coating on a granite boulder near an old habitation site. No idea what this is and I didn’t mess with it too much. Some of it has flaked off into a small pile at the bottom. It doesn’t look like it was created by a natural process. Not lichen. 130
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 30/08/2026Table Mountain from Dead Horse Canyon in Catalina State Park, Tucson AZ 1563
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 28/08/2026This is a western diamondback rattlesnake. I spotted this one this morning when I looked down and it was right next to my foot. It chose to stay still and let me pass but it did glare at me a bit, I think. 271
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 26/08/2026It was too hot to go hiking this morning but I went anyway. Not irresponsibly hot, but hot nonetheless. 1334
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 24/08/2026The best thing about buying vintage reel to reel tape from eBay is finding out what’s on the tapes. This seems to be German polka. Date on the case is 1976. Seller was in Hof, Germany. So vintage Cold War era bootleg German polka. I recorded and digitized it into Logic. 0110
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 17/08/2026Catalina State Park in Tucson, AZ. Mt. Lemmon, Baby Jesus Ridge, Romero Canyon, Pusch Ridge Wilderness, Pusch Ridge following the pan. 0120
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 16/08/2026I’m curious about the layer of stones at the top. They are all rounded indicating they rolled there, probably in seasonal flooding. But what about the thick layer of finer material underneath? Would digging into that yield more stones peppered throughout? 170
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 13/08/2026The smaller of the two of the tortoises was as cute as a button 030
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 13/08/2026It was overcast all day today in Tucson (very rare) with cooler temperatures so I hiked for almost 5 hours this morning. I saw 2 tortoises, 2 bunnies, a bunch of deer, the usual dose of lizards. No snakes. The birds are all molting and were out in force. Gila woodpecker & saguaro cactus. 🪶 1171
troy @thesouthernpath.com · 11/08/2026A Nagra E reel-to-reel field recorder and its original leather carry case. This came from a radio station in Switzerland I think. The pinch roller is perished but I have another on order. 170
