North Mountain
Decided a long hike looking for flowers might not be a good choice today, so i’m sticking around the house. Watching radar, I snuck out […]
Phoenix Sonoran Preserve
My wife and I were in Houston the end of February, so I didn’t get a hike in the week we left, as we were […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #67: Houston 🚀
Wife and I were in Houston to visit family & friends there for the first time since November, 2014, when we made an emergency 1,000 […]
First Water to Canyon Lake
The two major trailheads for the Superstition Mountains are Peralta Trailhead to the south and First Water Trailhead to the north. Sure, there are others, […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #66
There’s one really good rant, I could have in this blog, but probably best that even I bite my tongue. 😇 Besides, I do enough […]
BCT: Boy Scout Loop
The Boy Scout Loop is the second segment, south-to-north, of the Black Canyon Trail. The BCT is a National Recreation Trail that stretches 80 miles […]
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
It first occured to me to check out the west end of South Mountain Park while hiking the Alta Trail up Maricopa Peak in March, […]
Limestone Trail #252
I had thought about doing something else this week, but then Gary, aka LosDosSloFolks, from HikeArizona.com contacted me about doing the Limestone Trail #252 loop. […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #65
I was really sweating this episode of Phoenix Asshole Drivers. Now that I am retired, I don’t drive every day, let alone commute. Most of […]
South Mountain: Desert Foothills Loop
16,283 acre South Mountain Park is the largest city park in the United States. It is popular with the usual array of Phoenix outdoor activities: Hikers, […]