Elephant Rock – White Tank Mountains
If you drive to the Elephant Rock “trailhead” via Sun Valley Parkway, as you pass through the retirement community, look south. Through a gap in […]
If you drive to the Elephant Rock “trailhead” via Sun Valley Parkway, as you pass through the retirement community, look south. Through a gap in […]
It was a wintry — by Phoenix standards — 51° when I started my traditional Christmas Eve day hike up Shaw Butte. The Christmas Palo Verde […]
Wife flying in at 8:15 p.m. Left home at 4:45. Hit West Buttes Parking Lot at 5:30. Had to pee: Still no toilet, or even outhouse. […]
The Phoenix Sonoran Preserve is in far north Phoenix. There’s two units, South and North, separated by Sonoran Desert Drive and Cave Buttes Recreation Area. […]
I hadn’t put my shoes on dirt in three weeks, and hadn’t done a decent hike since Coachwhip Trail and Arrowhead Point Trail in Thunderbird […]
After my annual Halloween hike in Maryland, I start my winter hiking program back home in Phoenix. I actually have the next six months of […]
Eighteen months ago I hiked the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath from Bonds Landing to Paw Paw Campground. But Paw Paw Tunnel was closed due […]
I had done a few hikes, and one bike, along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Tow Path prior to 2019, but that is the year […]
A list of all the trails & trail systems that I am day / segment hiking, or have hiked / biked.
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