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” […]
Hiking
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Noland’s Ferry to Weverton Cliffs
The second of my two Easter weekend hikes on the C&O Canal. It was supposed to be the first one, but I called an audible […]
Snyder’s Landing to McMahon’s Mill
As you may have sussed, I don’t live in Maryland. (Unless there is a desert I am unaware of in Washington County.) Thus, section hiking […]
Hyde Mountain
After a complete lack of flowers at Picacho Peak and Phoenix Sonoran Preserve the last two weeks, I decided to skip this week’s scheduled Phoenix-area […]
Phoenix Sonoran Preserve
In 2020, I started finding heavy flowers the first week of March, when I hiked a half dozen trails in the Phoenix Sonoran Preserve‘s south […]
Picacho Peak: Sunset Vista Trail
There’s a Table Mesa (“Table Table”) in Arizona, so why not a Picacho Peak (“Peak Peak”)? 😜 Picacho Peak is the distinct formation on the […]