#flowerporn – Kingsnake's Home Den

Very nice patch of silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus) at the south end of the second enclosure.

Houston Brothers Trail #171

2024-07-31 Hiking 0

I was going to hike hike Porcupine Ridge, near Woods Canyon, at the east end of the Mogollon Rim, but AZ-87 to Payson was closed down due […]

In the 1870s, General Crook Trail mileage was scratched in trees and rocks. In the 1970s, Boy Scouts replaced the missing rocks and fallen trees with a 24″ high logs, 4″ diameter, with the mileage etched & painted into the log.

General Crook Trail: V6-V16

2024-04-24 Hiking 0

Heading east from Dewey, this is the 3rd segment of General Crook Trail. From the Copper Canyon Trailhead (P2) on FR 136, I skipped eight miles […]

West Chevelon Canyon

2023-07-06 Hiking 0

Hard to believe it has been 10 months since my last Mogollon Rim canyon crawl, in West Leonard Canyon. Didn’t do one in April. Nor May. […]

Coulter's lupine were dominant on the east side of Hill 2308. (Also tons of them on I-8 and along AZ-84.)

Stanfield Hill 2308 Loop

2023-03-21 Hiking 0

Tuesday, I was scheduled for my monthly Lunch With Mom in Casa Grande. Wednesday, I was supposed to be hiking Seven Springs to Cave Creek with LosDosSloFolks, from […]

Rain was expected mid-day along the Mogollon Rim, so I left home early. The reward was a beautiful sunrise over Four Peaks as I drove north on the Beeline Highway.

Knoll Lake & East Leonard Canyon

2022-08-17 Hiking 0

East Leonard Canyon is a 6-mile long canyon, located on the Mogollon Rim. Knoll Ridge forms its west flank; an unnamed ridge topped by Limestone […]

I thought was a variety of orange jelly, but it is actually a cauliflower mushroom (Sparassis crispa). Cauliflower mushroom are apparently quite tasty, but I did not eat that massive unit with my hiking beer.

East Clear Creek – Quaking Aspen Canyon

2022-08-03 Hiking 0

Quaking Aspen Canyon is located on the Mogollon Rim, just six miles east of AZ-260. Kehl Ridge is on its right flank, while Cienega Draw […]

Charging a fist-sized shotgun is rarely a career-enhancing move.

Four Locks to Fort Frederick

2022-04-15 Hiking 0

For our annual Easter visit to Hagerstown, I had two C&O Canal hikes scheduled: First, from Four Locks to Ft. Frederick (MP 108.7-112.2), then from […]

Arizona Flowers: High Country #2

2021-11-27 Hiking 0

My third Arizona flowers video adds another three dozen or so species I’ve photographed on my travels across the elevated forests, canyons and mountains of […]

These were all along FR 95 to Tanner Peak. For years, I had no idea what they were, but based on my 2023 Prescott Circle Trail hike, they are New Mexico locust.

Arizona Flowers: High Country

2021-09-21 Hiking 0

The second of my Arizona flowers videos, moves out of the low desert, into the “high country” of northern Arizona. The terrain is much more […]

Silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus) were common on the east and west slope of Mahan Mountain.

Mahan Mountain Flower Hunt

2021-08-25 Hiking 0

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 […]