Mahan Mountain Flower Hunt
Sandys Canyon and Walnut Canyon, just outside Flagstaff, always have great #flowerporn this time of year, even when the summer monsoon has not been so […]
Coconino County
Turkey Springs #217 & West Webber #228
Unless you count North Mountain, I haven’t hiked much the past month. (In fact, just once, Butterfly Trail #16 in the Catalinas.) We’ve had record […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #85
Seems like I’ve come up on a lot fires, or aftermaths of fires, the past year or so: The burnt out RV on the Mogollon […]
Willow Springs Canyon Rim
A month ago, five out of six national forests in Arizona, plus BLM and State Trust land, shut down for the 2021 wildfire season. I […]
Buffalo Park & McMillan Mesa
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 […]
East Clear Creek Loop
I was too wore out last Thursday — after hammering out two blogs and two videos from our Telluride trip — to do an “away” […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #83
This month I drove up to the Bear Canyon Lake on the Mogollon Rim for my first post-snow hike of the year, down to Marana […]
Bear Canyon Lake
Gradually transitioning from bike riding, I didn’t become a regular hiker until 2011. That was also the year I did my first Mogollon Rim hike, […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #76
I have Writers’ Block. Not sure what dashcam-related subject to write about this month. I have a cross-country trip coming up this Fall. With Chinese […]
Merritt Draw & Maverick Canyon
Hiking Merritt Draw and Maverick Canyon was my eighth, and likely last, Mogollon Rim hike of 2020. It might be a little early yet, even at […]