Christmas Palo Verde tree

Shaw Butte Trail #306

2015-12-24 0

63°, partly cloudy, no breeze when I started at 1300. Perfect weather.  Took Trail #100 to the NMVC, then started clockwise on #306. The little […]

Phoenix Mountains Preserve

Freedom Trail #302

2015-12-22 0

55° when I left home at 1230. Perfect hiking weather. After shrink visit, had wife drop me off at Piestewa TH. Started hiking at 1430, […]

Selfie I took for my wife (who is in Houston) and my son (who lives in Maryland).

Lookout Mountain

2015-12-12 0

Got a late start because I was working on a non-hiking video project. 60°, and totally overcast, when I left home in Sunnyslope at 1500. Caught […]

Brittlebush on North Mountain. Looking across 7th St., towards the Pointe Tapatio resort.

North Mountain

2015-02-21 0

I kept a slow, but steady, pace up the North Mountain road. Back was getting sore, and I’m sure my heart rate was elevated, but […]

The famous Glasgow Celtic Hoops on the summit of Shaw Butte. Sunnyslope below.

Shaw Butte Hoops

2014-06-29 0

Are you a Tim in Phoenix? Check out the Bobby Murdoch Phoenix CSC site! The Celtic FC Foundation — the charitable arm of the team […]