BCT: Boy Scout Loop to Table Mesa Rd.
Hiking from the “top” end of the Boy Scout Loop to Table Mesa Rd. is the third segment, south-to-north, of the Black Canyon Trail. The […]
Hiking Beer #5
When it’s not too hot, and I can spare the pack space, I like to squeeze in a bottle of heavenly nectar. Like Ben Franklin […]
Cave Creek Regional Park
Cave Creek Regional Park (CCRP) is considered one of the top spring flower destinations in the Phoenix area. There aren’t a whole lot of trails […]
Granite Mountain Loop
First off, just to be clear, this is the Granite Mountain in north Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve — not the Granite Mountain in Prescott, made […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers Greatest Hits #3
Not doing too much hiking this March, 2020, what with coronavirus — aka Wuhan Flu, aka Sino Sinus Syphilis — cratering the entire country over […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #68
With all the coronavirus panic being spread by the mainstream media, I was worried about our trip to Houston last month, but soon after returning […]
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, […]