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 […]
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 […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #81
Judging by March’s heavy increase in traffic colume, the Chinese Lung AIDs panic is well & truly over. Shame: I was rather enjoying zipping along […]
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 […]
Governors Peak
Less than an hour from my home in Sunnyslope, Governors Peak is not far from Phoenix. The trailhead is on a dirt road, but one […]