Colton Crater: It may not look like it, but that is an 800 ft. climb to the right.

Colton Crater

2016-09-29 2

I noticed Colton Crater when I was out here last year, hiking SP Crater. Whereas SP Crater is tall, steep and slippery with volcanic rock […]

North Mountain, Phoenix Mountains Preserve

North Mountain

2016-09-19 0

I don’t normally blog about short, local, maintenance hikes. That would be boring: “Yeah, I hiked up Camelback. Again.” Well, except Camelback is a zoo, […]

No idea what this is, other than beautiful.

Tour de Arizona

2016-08-22 0

We had family in town this week. With one exception, they had never really experienced Arizona. So, we did some Phoenix tourist things that even […]

Decorative boiler flu control. (Photo by Paul)

Mount Union Mine

2016-06-25 0

My mine exploring buddy Paul, aka @PrescottStyle, had this up for last Saturday, but William couldn’t make it, and I knew Sunday would be too […]