THE ROMERO POOLS TRAIL CATALINA STATE PARK, ARIZONA
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this adventure, I hike to the Romero Pools at Catalina State Park in Tucson Arizona. This hike is labeled as moderate at 5.6 miles round trip and 900 ft of elevation gain. The Romero pools is a spot along a creek with swimming holes and small waterfalls. It's really a great oasis in the desert to visit. The entire hike is beautiful with a lot of great panoramas of the park. If you have the time to do this hike while visiting Catalina State Park you should definitely hit it.
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Catalina Park look cool, the pools look awesome 👍
Yeah it's is an awesome state park especially if I visited it twice! Glad you enjoyed the trail and thank you so much for watching!
Yeap......I have many jello leg hikes. That's how you know you are giving it your all. Cool hike. Looks like it warmed up a degree or two towards the end.
Yeah Jello legs sucks! It did warm up nicely later on definitely! I was a really beautiful hike overall! Thanks Lance!
0:48 Hey Eric, I understand the confusion. In Arizona we refer to that as a "river." Shallow creeks don't exist in Arizona because the sun is evil. :P
Good to know 🤣🤣🤣👍. Thanks for watching brother!
Wow! Beautiful!
Catalina State Park in Tucson is one of my favorite place in the area to hike. Such amazing scenery! If you ever get the chance hike a bunch of trails there!
Love that park
Yes, it's so beautiful there!
Arizona is a beautiful place. great video Eric. beautiful hike. love it. 😃
Arizona is definitely a very beautiful place! Especially around the Tucson area like this one. So glad you enjoyed the video and thank you so much for watching.
Adventuring Outdoors With Eric your very welcome.
Amazed by the beauty of this place. Phenomenal views 😍 new subbie 🤗
Glad you enjoyed this location. Thank you so much for subscribing!
Gotta love that early morning light Eric! The way the sun catches the sides of the mountains and gives depth to the views, Awesome my friend! 👍👍👍
Yeah it was definitely a very beautiful time of day to start this hike! I love filming during sunrise and sunset as I'm sure you do as well. Thanks for watching Anthony!
Nice video. My favorite hike in Tucson. If you check out Montrose Pools again, hike upstream further. There are some nice pools higher up.
Thank you so much! Yeah that place definitely had much more to it than I seen! But any excuse to come back to the Tucson area to hike is fine by me 😀. Thanks again brother!
Great video Eric! Catalina SP is so beautiful, I hope we go again if we are in the area. Looks like you went at the crack of dawn! It must have been lovely to have the trail just for yourself. Always a pleasure to come along!
Yes Alex, you can totally understand why I came back to this beautiful state park a 2nd time. It was my favorite place in Tucson to hike, even more so than Saguaro National Park. I got to the trailhead very early in the morning and I loved seeing the sun come up as I went along the trail.
There was not a lot of people as I was going toward the pools, but there was an insane amount of hikers on the way back. It's always a pleasure bringing you along. I appreciate it so much my dear friend!
Oh! Lots of little pools around. Made the hike so beautiful. The cold mornings and warm days are so strange aren't they!
Yeah seeing all the little pools was cool especially in the desert! The temperature changes are dramatic but as long as I have layers to peel as I go I am good! Thank you so much Josh!
Another beautiful Tucson hike! So nice to see the shade and then the sun come up! Really liked all the water flowing over the rocks!👍👍🥾🥾
Yeah it was nice to see the sun pop out during the hike! Plus it warmed me up a bit lol. Seeing all that flowing water is the desert is such an awesome sight! Thanks again Jennifer! Have a wonderful weekend!
I liked it!!! I'm glad you showed more of the trail in this video.
Yeah the trail was very scenic and a little bit longer than some of the other hikes I've filmed. Glad you enjoyed this and thanks for watching my friend!
Romero pools isn't as popular in the winter from what i have seen. Unfortunately the park rangers have to do rescues all the time in the summer. Spring/fall are best times to do the hike. Remember to bring at hat, at least 2L of WATER, and a salty snack. The refreshing pools are well worth the almost 6 mi round trip.
Yeah it's a great hike but I definitely would not hike there in the summer. I can definitely see this being a very dangerous hike if you're not taking precautions. I really appreciate your comments and checking out this video! Thanks brother!
good hike enjoyed watching the video, it always amazes me the temperature change, 28 in the morning but it must of been hot you were in a T shirt in the end, the views were very nice too
Thank you so much Craig and I'm glad you liked the hike and the video! Yeah the temperature change throughout the day just means I have to strip along the way layer by layer! It was a pretty scenic hike and will I agree with you on that. Thanks again brother.
08.00 in the morning, I love and early start to beat the crowds. Hmm, I must of missed that waterfall hike, I need to check back, been super busy last week. Another gorgeous hike Eric and good to see the day progressed onto T Shirt weather for you. Real nice pools and on a hot day, a nice place for a summers dip, cheers Alan
Yes I always love an early start on a hike! Yeah It definitely warmed up quite a bit as the day progressed. The pools were definitely nice and I could imagine them being pretty full in the Summer. Thanks for watching Alan!
Hello Eric !
Thanks for sharing this beautiful hike well captured and edited!
Just love those cactus 🌵wish to see some one day !
Stay safe about the Covid-19 it’s serious 🤬
H&S 👩❤️👨
Yes it was a beautiful hike and a half decent workout on top of that! I am glad you liked the way it turned out and I appreciate your kind feedback. The Saguaro cactuses are always cool to see because we don't have those in Las Vegas. Yeah Covid-19 is no joke and the only time I am around people is in the Super Market. Thanks again brother.
New friends here for support 🔔🔔🔔👍🏻
Thank you!
Nice trail brother! Being in Arizona do you get use to the cold starts type of weather & then it being up to the 70’s or so? Over here in N.C. we have cold mornings & warm afternoons but nothing quite like that haha
Yeah the temperature shifts are crazy but the hiking up there is so worth it! That's funny that even on the East Coast where you live it's not even that crazy of a temperature shift throughout the day lol. Thanks for watching brother. Enjoy your weekend!
Headed to Tucson area soon ... thanks for the video from the area. Comment / question: Your image stabilization if very good ... mind sharing how you do it? Thanks
So this video I shot over a year ago and back then I was using a GoPro Hero 7 Black attached to a Karma Grip Gimbal Stabilizer. I shot at 2.7k 60. I slow my footage down to 50% to make the footage look even smother. Now I use a GoPro Hero 9 Black and no gimbal because the built-in stabilization is that good! I now I shoot in 4k 60. Thanks you so much for watching. If you are looking for a bunch more hiking trails in the Tucson area check out my Tucson Area Hiking Trails Playlist. Have a great trip!! 👍 ua-cam.com/play/PLlFBZwxG-fwp5Lfwd2Dl1D9VO22LTmz61.html
Thank you for the detailed information including your progression through stabilization equipment. I'll be doing some research based on these items and also check out your Tucson playlist. Thanks again! Happy trails.
You should ask for a commission from GoPro ... I just purchased a Hero 9 (initiated by your commentary). Would you mind answering more questions? When you say "slow my footage down", do you mean you reduce the frame rate to 30 fps at some point? ... on the GoPro itself or in post-processing? What format do you upload to UA-cam now? Thanks again for sharing your experience.
@@FlashTraxFamily I've been doing UA-cam for about 4 years and finally I got enough watch hours for UA-cam to monetize me. It just happened 3 weeks ago. It is not a lot of money to start but getting paid to do something I Iove is amazing! You have to shoot in 60 fps because when you slow your footage down to 50% in editing it won't look choppy but seamless. I only do that when I am doing the music montages and showing off the scenery between my talking parts. I do it during my B-roll. I edit my videos with Wondershare Filmora X. Most editing software is very difficult to use especially it you never done video editing before.But this software is good and pretty easy to use. I upload in MOV, Resolution 3840x2160, and 60fps directly to my computer then from my computer to UA-cam. Congratulations on your new GoPro Hero 9 I hope you enjoy using it like I do. Let me know if you have any other questions my friend!
@@adventuringoutdoorswitheric Thanks for being willing to continue this discussion. On the HERO9, do you use one of the existing video presets for your 4K/60 footage or did you modify an existing preset or did you create a custom video preset? You're right that editing software can be difficult to learn but I've become familiar with Adobe Premiere Elements and am hoping to stay with that app if I can. When I modified a HERO9 preset to shoot in 4K/60, the resulting footage would not import to APE. I could probably convert it first with, say, Handbrake but I'm hoping to find a native 4K/60 format that I can import directly to APE. --- Glad that you were able to reach monetization status, congratulations. I doubt I'll ever monetize the channel I use for travel montages because I use commercial audio tracks (here's my most watched travel montage ... ua-cam.com/video/d3zxDKTb7lg/v-deo.html) which is a different style with many stills edited in. However, I recently created a woodworking channel and passed the 100 subscriber mark to get a custom url (ua-cam.com/users/FlashTraxWoodworking). This one could possibly be monetized in the future because I use all UA-cam Library audio on this channel (even though monetization is not a priority).
You started the trail with a temp of 28°. Do you remember what the temperature was when you completed the trail?
I think when I finished the trail it was somewhere in the high 60s or low 70s. It was quite a dramatic change. Thank you so much Mark for checking out this video!
Adventuring Outdoors With Eric that is a huge temperature change! Great video!
@@MarkDouglasOutside Thanks brother!
It's not a creek. It's an arroyo, or more commonly known among English speakers as a wash.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching.