23-Dec-1999 -- The hike to this confluence was
along a seasonal riverbed in the Sonoran desert, so it was relatively
dense with plant life. I had to GI Joe under a barbed-wire fence that
paralleled SR 86 on the way to Sells. In the process I got some plant
stickies in my back, which I couldn't get rid of. I tried to follow the
wash, but it was often blocked with foliage, so my route to the site was
far from direct. 32N 112W was located at a fork in the wash. It was a
nice view: lots of saguaro, creosote and other desert plants; and in the
distance, the observatory at Kitt Peak, and Baboquivari, the sacred
mountain of the Tohono O'odham, on whose land this confluence is
located.