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Sirena Rana
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Author, trail designer, photographer and public speaker inspired by nature! TrailsInspire.com sirenarana.com
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Sirena Rana @desertsirena.bsky.social · Feb 1
Urban Trails: Tucson official launch day!!
Get signed copies at TrailsInspire.com/books or buy from your local bookseller. Published by Mountaineers Books. #booksky #books #author #urbantrails
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My book was featured in the Arizona Daily Star today!

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#booksky #UrbanTrailsTucson #author #mountaineersbooks #TrailsInspire
June 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Summit Hut Wine, Women and Wilderness event was such a blast! Inspirational organizations, presentations and tasty food and beverages made for a fantastic community gathering.

#UrbanTrailsTucson #booksky #booktour #arizona #mountaineersbooks
May 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Urban Trails: Tucson book tour at Summit Hut Women, Wine and Wilderness event Saturday May 3rd from 4:30-6pm at 5251 E. Speedway! The event celebrates women in outdoor leadership. Learn about these diverse roles, how they got involved, and ways that you can too.

#urbantrailstucson #booksky
May 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Fantastic time on the Urban Trails: Tucson book tour walking the Turquoise Trail downtown! Thanks to all who attended, and to @visittucson.bsky.social, Pima County and Presidio San Augustin del Tucson Museum for helping to promote the book signing. #booksky #UrbanTrailsTucson #mountaineersbooks
April 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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See you tomorrow on the Urban Trails: Tucson book tour for a walk on the Turquoise Trail and book signing at 115 N. Church Ave! Free registration here: bit.ly/42xX9EY

@visittucson.bsky.social #booksky #booktour #UrbanTrailsTucson
April 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Join me Friday 4/11 at 10am for a walk on the Turquoise Trail downtown for my Urban Trails: Tucson book tour! Book signing and live music 12-1 at the Southern AZ Heritage & Visitor Center 115 N. Church.

Free registration here! bit.ly/42xX9EY

#UrbanTrailsTucson #Tucson #booksky #booktour
April 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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All set up for Urban Trails: Tucson book signing and art sales at the Southwest Alternative Building Conference in Rodeo, NM!

#UrbanTrailsTucson #booksky #booktour #author
A woman with brown braided hair wearing a purple shirt smiles and holds a book Urban Trails Tucson. The table has books and colorful vases on it
March 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Double Urban Trails: Tucson book event weekend went great! Saturday was at the Texas Canyon Nature Preserve, and a hike at Sweetwater Preserve with @womenwhoexplore.bsky.social on Sunday.

#UrbanTrailsTucson #booksky #booktour #TrailsInspire #mountaineersbooks
March 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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#Volunteer Day, book signing and hike for Urban Trails: Tucson at @sanctuarycove.bsky.social Thanks to all who built drainages and fixed erosion for Joseph’s Eagle Scout project!

Get your signed copy TrailsInspire.com/books

#booksky #UrbanTrailsTucson
#trailsinspire

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Sanctuary Cove Volunteer Day, Urban Trails Tucson Book Signing and Hike!
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March 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! The full listing of book events is out and I hope you’ll join me at one of the signings, trail work or hikes!

#UrbanTrailsTucson #booksky #events #mountaineersbooks #nature #travel #tucson #arizona #womenauthors #womenwriters

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Join Me for Hikes and Signings – Urban Trails: Tucson Events
Join me for hikes, book signings and more to celebrate the release of my second book, Urban Trails: Tucson with Mountaineers Books!
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March 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Join me at @sanctuarycove.bsky.social March 15th for an awesome volunteer trail work event, lunch, book signing and hike at this spectacular location nestled beneath impressive Safford Peak! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/volunteer-...

#sanctuarycove #trailsinspire #urbantrailstucson #volunteer
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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That feeling when you finally see your new book Urban Trails: Tucson at your favorite outdoors store, Summit Hut!

Buy signed copies at TrailsInspire.com/books or support your local bookseller.

#urbantrailstucson #mountaineersbooks #booksky #books #author #guidebook
A tan woman with brown braided hair and a pink shirt stands next to a bookshelf and her book, Urban Trails: Tucson is on the shelf with a saguaro cactus sunset silhouette
February 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Urban Trails: Tucson official launch day!!
Get signed copies at TrailsInspire.com/books or buy from your local bookseller. Published by Mountaineers Books. #booksky #books #author #urbantrails
February 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Exciting news: I just got the first copy of my book, Urban Trails: Tucson with Mountaineers Books! I’ve been working on this for 4 years and am thrilled to be able to finally share it with the public February 1st. Preorders are $25 for autographed copies at sirenarana.com

#author #books #trails
A copper colored metal marker holds a book, Urban Trails Tucson, that has a vivid red and pink sunset with a silhouette of a saguaro cactus with two arms outstretched on the cover. In the background are distant mountains with yellow grasses in the foreground. A tan smiling woman with long brown hair and a colorful blue, aqua and purple shirt holds a book, Urban Trails Tucson, that has a vivid red and pink sunset with a silhouette of a saguaro cactus with two arms outstretched. In the background is a tree with yellow fall leaves and pink hued mountains
December 18, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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One of my favorite things to do is see my books in the wild and sign them! If you don’t find these you can get a signed copy here: sirenarana.com
#author #guidebook #ArizonaTrail
Two copies of a guidebook - Best Day Hikes on the Arizona National Scenic Trail rest on an orange table covered with maps. One of the copies is open and signed Happy Trails - Sirena. The cover features a saguaro cactus and wildflower lined trail with Sirena dressed in an orange top and purple skirt
November 30, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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My favorite resident at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. I helped rehabilitate this roadrunner years ago, he is blind in one eye and we taught him how to feed himself again. Such a treat to visit and see him looking so healthy! #birds #wildliferehab
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Wanted to share a little about myself- I’m a trail designer, writer and photographer passionate about getting people outdoors! Here’s a project from my company Trails Inspire, the Texas Canyon Nature Preserve at the Amerind Museum in southeastern Arizona.
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Texas Canyon Nature Preserve | Arizona Highways
Zipping past Texas Canyon, an hour southeast of Tucson, it’s impossible not to notice the boulders — giant, eye-catching piles of granite, like something out of The Flintstones. But other than providi...
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November 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Saw Harris’s Hawks hunting in the Sonoran Desert! They are known as the “wolves of the sky” because they live in packs and it was incredible to watch them cooperate and maneuver through the cacti. #birdwatching #birdnerd #birdphotography
Three large brown hawks with white at the end of their tail stand atop the arms of a green saguaro cactus beneath a blue sky Two large brown hawks with white on the underside and at the end of their tail stand atop the arms of a green saguaro cactus beneath a blue sky A large brown hawk with yellow beak, mottled white chest and white beneath their tail stand atop the arms of a green saguaro cactus beneath a blue sky A large brown hawk with mottled white chest peeks through the arms of a green saguaro cactus beneath a blue sky
November 14, 2024 at 7:27 PM