Butterfly Trail #16
I last hiked Mount Lemmon in 2019, to the Upper Lemmon Canyon Pools. I would have hiked the Catalina Mountains last year, but on June […]
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Arizona Flowers: Low Desert
I was having my regular Monday lunch with my dad when he suggested I make a video just of the flowers I photograph while hiking. […]
Sandys Canyon & Walnut Canyon
There isn’t actually a “Sandys Canyon”. And it usually appears without the apostrophe, despite apparently being posessive. Go figure. 👨🏻🎓 So, what may be referred […]
Upper Miller Canyon
Two years ago, I hiked middle Miller Canyon, the four miles north of FR 141H. (“Middle” is the section, not the actual name of the […]
Willow Springs Canyon
I’ve hiked around Woods Canyon Lake several times, but I’ve never been down the canyon it drains into. The lake is my favorite place in […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Back Home in Wisconsin
Our last trip to Wisconsin, in June, we visited the Milwaukee Art Museum, the first time I had been there in 50 years. This time […]