Toothaker / Gadsden / Butterfield
Estrella Mountain Regional Park is 19,840 acres of easy Sonoran Desert hiking. Officially, the most difficult trail is rated “moderate-difficult”, but Maricopa County tends to […]
Hiking
Marcus Landslide
Marcus Landslide was “discovered” in 2002 by two ASU geography post-grads. Surely, many people had looked at the rocks before, but the students were the […]
Maricopa Trail: Anthem to Lake Pleasant
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 4th and 5th segment of the Maricopa Trail. At the beginning of 2021, I set out to hike […]
Indian Mesa Ruins
Indian Mesa Ruins is another one of those hikes I’ve had on my to-do list for years. Not sure why I’ve never gotten around to […]
Shaw Butte Trail #306
Today, November 17, is National Take a Hike Day — something I only realized sometime in the past year. My two previous hikes on this […]
Haunted Canyon Trail #203 / Tony Ranch
Earlier this year, I switched my regular hiking day from Thursday to Wednesday, as the latter seems to have less traffic. (Probably due to fewer […]
Williamsport to Four Locks
My typical schedule when visiting family in Hagerstown, is to fly in to Baltimore on Thursday, hike on Friday (while everybody is at work / […]
Clam Beds & Red Basin
The Petrified Forest is a 221,391 acre national park in Navajo County and Apache County, in northeast Arizona. It is known for its fossils, the stunning […]
Barbershop Canyon
Last week’s expedition to Greens Peak did not yield the rainbow of fall color I had hoped for. The best fall color I’ve found in […]
Greens Peak
Fall color on the San Francisco Peaks … uh, peaks … during the last week of September / first week of October. Lockett Meadow is […]