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You must obtain a current copy of the Council's "Where To Go Camping in Arizona & the Southwest", trails edition. This brochure contains trail information, history, suggestions and other helpful aids. The following General Requirements apply.
DESCRIPTION:A 50-miler backpack trail crossing the Catalina Mountain Range from north to south. The trailhead is in Oracle and the end of the trail is in the Sabino Canyon Visitors' Center. The trail includes the peaks of Mt. Lcnimon and Mt. Bigelow.
The route of the Catalina Challenge Trail includes the Oracle Ridge Trail, road hike to Mt. Lemmon, down by Lenimon Rock to the Wilderness of Rocks Trail, Aspen Trail, Mt. Bigelow, Camp Lawton, Palisades Trail, Sycamore Springs Reservoir, Lower Bear Canyon Trail, and return hike to Sabino visitors' Center.
CATALINA CHALLENGE
CATALINA CHALLENGE
Requirements:
1. You must be a registered Boy Scout or Scouter.
2. All hikes must be supervised by a minimum of two adults (at least one must be over 2 1) with at least two adults for each 12 boys.
3. Awards will be denied for misconduct.
4. All of these trails are within the Coronado National Forest. Contact the appropriate office well in advance of vour trip for information and details on hiking and/or camping on your trek.
United States Forest Service
Coronado National Forest
300 West Congress
Tucson, AZ. 85701
(602) 629-6483
5. Hikes must be completed. Weather, trail closure, tired boys or leaders who cannot go on, equipment failure, etc., maN, make it wise to stop short of completing these hikes, but do not justify granting the awards.
6. Individual "Trail Logs" describing what you did and what you saw must be signed by the Trek Leader and submitted with your High Adventure application.
7. Only one Patch or Medal will be issued to each participant.
8. Wearing Awards. Trail award patches may bedisplayed on the jacket, pack, camping gear or worn as a temporary insignia on the right shirt pocket. Medals may be worn on the left breast pocket to the left of the Eagle Badge on the Scout Uniform. Use Cub Scout Den numerals on trail medals as "repeater" numbers for those earning trail medals more than once.