Backpacking Adventure - Hiking Route

Our plan for our backpacking adventure was as follows: Day 1: Depart from Marshall GUlch trailhead and hike west - northwest up to Marhshall Saddle, then take Wilderness of Rocks trail and then go southwest for a total of 4.3 miles, along the way you'll pass the Lemmon Rock Lookout trail#12 junction, and finally you'll cross Lemmon Creek, when it crosses the trail as it heads southeast toward Sabino Creek. Plan is to find a nice level spot not too far from the creek, so one would not have to hike very far to make water, normally about 100 to 200 yards from the stream if an appropriate camping spot could be found. Planned to hike about 1 to 1.5 miles per hour, yielding a hike time of about 2.7 hours, which should get us to our campsite by about 3:00PM assuming that we leave the Marshall Gulch trailhead by about 12:30, since our ride leaves Le Buzz at about 11:00AM, and it's about a 90 minute drive to the trailhead. We would rest for 15 minutes when we found the campsite, and then start setting up camp at about 3:15. Camp should be set up by about 4:30, and we should eat at about 5:00PM. That should give us about an hour to make water before sunset, and if we have the energy and inclination, we could do some night hiking and look around the area. Or, we could go to bed at about 7-ish right after dusk, as it gets cold after the sun goes down up in the mountains on a clear night.

Day 2: Get up after sunrise, when it starts to warm up, and make breakfast. After breakfast, pack everything back up and prepare to hike. We would leave from our campsite near Lemmon Creek, and proceed southwest and complete the remaining mile or so of Wilderness of Rock trail up hill to the junction with Lemmon trail #5. At that junction follow Lemmon Trail #5 south southwest uphill until you reach the large rocks at the peak of the trail at about 7,500 feet, then continue downhill the rest of the hike on day 2, continuing on Lemmon trail about 1.9 miles until you reach Romero Pass. At Romero Pass, continue downhill, and follow Sabino Canyon West fork trail#24 south-southeast for 1.8 miles until you reach the junction with Cathedral Rock trail #26. Find a campsite near that junction, also near Sabino Creek for water. Set up camp and have dinner, after dinner look around and then go to bed. The elevation of this campsite should be somewhere near 5,500 feet, so it won't be as cold as the prior evening. /font>