Chukar sighting, first one in Arizona. Cochise County Mountain Hike (SOTA) Volume 05

In this video:

We hike a mountain with a nice trail most of the way. We see signs and debris from this summit was used as a lookout for smugglers. We see a chukar, the first one we have ever seen in all our time in Arizona.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chukar/overview

About the series:

This is a series of hiking videos where I also include some amateur radio.

If you like hiking up mountains and desert scenery, these should be some fun videos for you.

If you like amateur radio, portable and remote activating, summits on the air, parks on the air etc, these videos have that too.

If you like one but not the other, I put chapters in so you can skip the parts you don’t care about.

00:00 Intro to hike
00:24 The hike starts
01:14 Mrs B goes on her own
06:02 Summit weather station
06:23 Summit log and lookout debris
07:33 Radio Setup
28:19 The hike down
28:56 lookout's loot
29:35 Trail cairns
30:40 We put a cairn
32:24 The drive out/ranching remnants
33:07 The Chukar