Blue Ridge Trail #107
Assuming the highway is not blocked due to a wildfire — more on that later — it is a 3½ hour drive from Phoenix to […]
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East Clear Creek Loop
I was too wore out last Thursday — after hammering out two blogs and two videos from our Telluride trip — to do an “away” […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #83
This month I drove up to the Bear Canyon Lake on the Mogollon Rim for my first post-snow hike of the year, down to Marana […]
Bridal Veil Falls
After driving nearly 500 miles up from Phoenix, my wife and I were spent the week in Mountain Village, the ski resort above the city […]
Telluride Road Trip
I got a really good deal on an off-season short term rental in Mountain Village (a “suburb” of Telluride), so my wife and I took […]
Bear Canyon Lake
Gradually transitioning from bike riding, I didn’t become a regular hiker until 2011. That was also the year I did my first Mogollon Rim hike, […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #82: Maryland
Every Easter and Halloween, my wife & I fly to Maryland to visit family. (Due to Wuhan Flu, 2020 was the exception, and I drove […]
BCT: Cordes to Big Bug Creek
Due to lack of rain during the winter monsoon, this spring has been no super bloom. Rather the opposite. It wasn’t until last week at […]
Brown’s Mountain Loop
Brown’s Mountain is a formation in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, north of the ritzy Troon North Golf Club. It is part of a chain of […]
Hiking Beer #6
On January 17, 1920, the United States prohibited the production, sale and transport of alcohol. But not its possession. Rich people emptied out liquor stores […]