View from the top

This is the ski run at the top of Mt. Lemmon; it is the southernmost ski area in the US. We are thirty road miles from Tucson, but less than 15 as the crow flies. Before we got to the end of the road, I saw a family sledding in a ditch beside the road. I never would have thought that you can go from a desert environment to a boreal forest (usually found in Canada) in less than an hour. This is the view north from Mt. Lemmon to the town of Oracle, AZ, approximately 4000' below me. Oracle is best known as the home of Biosphere 2.