Bear Flat Trail #178
Originally, I scheduled another Mogollon Rim hike for this week. But I hiked Middle Leonard Canyon last week, and I prefer to avoid hitting the […]
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Middle Leonard Canyon
Middle Leonard Canyon is a four mile long canyon, located on the Mogollon Rim between Hospital Ridge and Knoll Ridge. Middle Leonard Canyon starts on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Iron King Trail
With five of the six national forests closed in Arizona until at least September, finding a hike — let alone nine! — in Arizona that […]
PCT: Watson Lake to Turley Trailhead
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 […]
Blue Ridge Trail #107
Assuming the highway is not blocked due to a wildfire — more on that later — it is a 3½ hour drive from Phoenix to […]