Lost Dog Wash to Sunrise Peak
Sunrise Peak is in Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve, the largest city park in the United States at 30,500 acres. Maricopa County’s McDowell Mountain Regional Park, […]
Hiking
Black Mountain
Since I finished the C&O Canal, I plan on returning to doing Appalachian Trail day / segment hikes. There’s a lot of up & downs […]
North Mountain Intervals
It’s been over a year since I hiked North Mountain. Most of my during-the-week exercise has been biking around Sunnyslope. I decided to get back […]
Reach 11 Recreation Area
There’s a good decription of the overall Reach 11 Recreation Area from when I biked the west end last year, so I won’t repeat it, […]
South Mountain: Holbert Loop
Lots of folks frequently hike Phoenix’s South Mountain Park. Even though South Mountain has 100 miles of dirt trails spread over 16,283 acres, I prefer […]
Vineyard Mountain Trail #131
I got the idea to hike Vineyard Mountain from Mike_W on HikeArizona.com. Normally, I spend the winter months doing “locals’ hikes” in the Phoenix metro […]
Butterfield Stage Trail Index
The Butterfield Stage Trail is a National Historic Trail that starts in St. Louis, travels various routes across the Southwest, ending 2,795 miles later in […]
Cave Creek Regional Park
Normally, on Christmas Eve, I hike Shaw Butte to visit it’s palo verde Christmas Tree. It’s a good work out hike. But not worth a […]
Apache Maid Mountain
I started my winter, lower-elevation, hiking program last week at Peoria Sunrise Mountain Preserve. When I finished around 1 p.m., it was a toasty 87℉. […]
Peoria Sunrise Mountain Preserve
Personally, I avoid doing the same hike a second time. Heck, the first sixty times I hiked the desert behind my house, I only repeated […]