2021 Wildfire Season – Kingsnake's Home Den

This skyrocket was too perfectly positioned not to set up Mount Elden as the background for the photo.

Buffalo Park & McMillan Mesa

2021-07-08 Hiking 0

This week is my third of likely ten 2021 Wildfire Season forest closure hikes: Five of Arizona’s six national forests, plus all BLM and Arizona […]

Iron King Trail

2021-07-01 Hiking 0

With five of the six national forests closed in Arizona until at least September, finding a hike — let alone nine! — in Arizona that […]

Paul under AZ-69, at the beginning of Badger Mountain Trail.

PCT: Watson Lake to Turley Trailhead

2021-06-25 Hiking 0

On Monday, the Coconino National Forest and Kaibab Forest closed due to extreme wildfire threat. I was planning on hiking around Knoll Lake, on the […]