Desert Park-Windgate Pass-Gateway Loop
With a short week due to being in Las Vegas last week, and Mission Viejo for Christmas, and working on the subsequent Valley of Fire […]
Hiking
Valley of Fire State Park
This week my wife and I had our annual romantic pre-Christmas getaway to Las Vegas. As everywhere else we travel, I planned a hike or, […]
Dixie Mountain Loop
With the holidays coming up, I knew I wouldn’t have any time to do a long, out of town, hike, let alone the associated triplog, […]
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
Three and a half years ago, I hiked from Glen Oaks to Hill 6276, overlooking Wilhoit. I was concerned about wildfire as, at the time, […]
Amtrak Sunset Limited / Agua Caliente Rd.
Today was another expedition I’ve had gestating for awhile. (Almost two years, since Stoic and I visited the rock art at the Sundad ghost town.) I […]
Smith Brothers Mine
In my constant search for new things to check out, where I won’t have to fight hordes of perfume-reeking, boombox blasting, spandex-stretching weekend warriors, I […]
West Fork of Oak Creek
My cousin Ann was in Arizona for a few days, doing the tourist thing. My wife & I met Ann up in Sedona, where another […]
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
Today was the fourth of my biannual South Mountain Freeway / Loop 202 survey hikes, that I started in April, 2015. The basic concept is […]
Shaw Butte, Computer Disaster & Phoenix Asshole Drivers #3
This week, I again scheduled myself to hike Tanner Peak. Yet again, the day before, I had my plans altered. Unlike last week, when I […]
West Fork of Oak Creek
The last two or three months, I haven’t really had any hike plans: I’ve been making it up as I go along. Last week, I […]