Kingsnake's Home Den

Kingsnake's Home Den

Hiking Arizona & Beyond

  • Home
  • Hiking
    • Gear
    • Locations
    • Hikes by Year
      • 2026
      • 2025
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
      • 2011
  • Creativity
    • Jokes
      • 2016
    • Comics & Memes
    • Poetry
    • Songs & Stories
    • Turd of the Week
      • 1999
      • 2000
      • 2001
      • 2002
  • Military
    • Urgent Fury (Grenada)
      • Invasion!
      • On the Beach
      • Article 15
      • TACCP Stories
      • SFC Frazee’s Photos
    • Gulf War
      • 432nd CA History
      • Letters Home
      • News Articles
      • Gulf War Videos
    • Green Bay to Bosnia
      • McMurry’s Diary
      • Dayton Peace Accord
      • Timeline (1945-1993)
      • Yugo Digest
      • Month in Macedonia
      • News Articles
      • Who’s Who
      • Quotes
    • Decompression Chamber
    • Hohenfels JMRC
    • 153rd Field Artillery
    • War Games
      • B-17: Queen of the Skies
      • Midway
  • Miscellaneous
    • Brew City FA
  • Sitemap
  • Contact

Month: January 2019

Phoenix Asshole Drivers: Michael Joe Jolls

Phoenix Asshole Drivers: Michael Joe Jolls

2019-01-30 Dashcam 0

My wife & I were on our way out of Sunnyslope, southbound on 7th St. at 11:37 a.m. Just as we passed the Arizona Canal, […]

Big Stick Mine Exploration

2019-01-25 Mine Exploring 0

I originally meant to explore Big Stick Mine last year, on the same day I explored the adjacent Weepah & Homestake Mines. But I ran […]

Ahwatukee Sunrise

Guadelupe Ridge & Fat Man’s Pass

2019-01-18 Hiking 0

Fray Marcos de Niza (c. 1495-1558) was a Italian Franciscan friar who, in 1531, arrived in Spanish America to be a missionary. In 1536, the […]

Phoenix Asshole Drivers #39

Phoenix Asshole Drivers #39 – Las Vegas

2019-01-17 Dashcam 0

My initial thought downloading video from my dashcam, from our our Christmas trip to Las Vegas, was that there wasn’t much, and it wasn’t any good. […]

Four Peaks at sunrise.

Tom’s Thumb & Ogre’s Den

2019-01-11 Hiking 0

Last week, I tried taking the Climbers Access Route up East End Mountain to Tom’s Thumb. I had to bail when I encountered a section […]

Climbers’ Route to Tom’s Thumb?

2019-01-04 Hiking 2

After my last hike, on Prospect Trail in Nevada’s Valley of Fire, it was back home this week. Being winter, I planned another ‘Locals Hike’, […]

Recent Posts

  • Black Mountain is steep, but not THAT steep.

    Black Mountain

    2026-03-03 Hiking 0
  • North Mountain anti-graffiti sign

    North Mountain Intervals

    2026-02-28 Hiking 0
  • Globe chamomile, aka stinknet (Oncosiphon pilulifer), an invasive species from South Africa, has become widespread in Maricopa County over the last 15 years. Stinknet was the most common flower in Reach 11.

    Reach 11 Recreation Area

    2026-02-25 Hiking 0
  • South Mountain Park: Looking northwest from inside Dobbins Lookout. North Mountain is visible past downtown Phoenix (right).

    South Mountain: Holbert Loop

    2026-02-18 Hiking 0
  • Butterfield Stage Trail: The first Boy Scout skull pole in five miles, at the Happy Camp / Fortymile Desert Tank cistern.

    Butterfield Stage: Estrella Rd. to Gap Well

    2026-02-10 Bike Riding 0

Categories

Archives

Follow us

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • instagram
Follow us
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • instagram

Copyright © 2026 Preston V. McMurry III | WordPress Theme by MH Themes