Hiking Beer #4
Celebrating 86 years since Prohibition was repealed, 4/7 is National Beer Day in the USA. 🍻🎉 Pictured are beers I’ve quaffed during & after hikes. […]
Hiking
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
This was my ninth Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway survey hike. My first survey hike was four years ago, in April, 2015. Hard to believe […]
Skyline Regional Park
Lot of stuff going on behind the scenes are Kingsnake Studios. I’ve been uber busy. Not sure where to look for #flowerporn this week, and […]
Maricopa Trail: Spur Cross to CCRP
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 2nd segment of the Maricopa Trail. Heading into this week’s hike, I’d heard that flowers were going nuts, […]
Buckeye Copper Mine 2
I was thinking of heading back out to the Dripping Spring Mountains, on the undefined border of Gila County & Pinal County, for some more […]
Black Mesa Loop
Last week I explored Big Stick Mine, on the Santa Maria River, about a two hour drive from my home in Sunnyslope. So, this week […]
Big Stick Mine Exploration
I originally meant to explore Big Stick Mine last year, on the same day I explored the adjacent Weepah & Homestake Mines. But I ran […]
Guadelupe Ridge & Fat Man’s Pass
Fray Marcos de Niza (c. 1495-1558) was a Italian Franciscan friar who, in 1531, arrived in Spanish America to be a missionary. In 1536, the […]
Tom’s Thumb & Ogre’s Den
Last week, I tried taking the Climbers Access Route up East End Mountain to Tom’s Thumb. I had to bail when I encountered a section […]
Climbers’ Route to Tom’s Thumb?
After my last hike, on Prospect Trail in Nevada’s Valley of Fire, it was back home this week. Being winter, I planned another ‘Locals Hike’, […]