Marshall Peak Loop
This week was our annual summer trip to Mount Lemmon. You could hike up from Tucson, but if you do you are much stronger hiker […]
Hiking
Sandstone Canyon
Sandstone Canyon is a short canyon that starts at Sandstone Tank, and ends only 2¼ miles later at West Leonard Canyon. Sandstone Canyon is dead […]
PCT: White Spar to Copper Basin Rd.
Today was my penultimate segment hike of the Prescott Circle Trail, a 56-mile loop around the city of Prescott. “The Other PCT” is mostly dirt, […]
Porcupine Canyon
Today’s Mogollon Rim canyon crawl is down an unnamed canyon. Let’s call it “Porcupine Canyon”, after Porcupine Ridge, which forms its west flank. After exiting […]
Santa Rosa, CA
I first visited Santa Rosa around 1971 when the population was 50,000. My grandparents had retired there from Los Angeles. We flew out for that […]
General Crook Trail: V107-V114
Heading east from Dewey, this is the 14th and final segment of General Crook Trail. In 1872, General George Crook‘s troops built a road from […]
General Crook Trail Index
In 1871, General George Crook surveyed a supply road west from Fort Apache, Arizona, across the Mogollon Rim to Camp Verde, then on to Fort […]
Black Mountain
Arizona has at least six Black Mountains, including two in Pima County. Today’s Black Mountain is in Cave Creek. (Technically, the summit is in Carefree, […]
Maverick Hill Trail #568
Maverick Hill is a straight forward workout hike, in a remote location, with some good views. But Maverick Hill is a long way from Phoenix. […]
Cave Creek Trail #4
Cave Creek Trail #4, per the National Forest Service, “passes through the Arizona Upland Phase of the Sonoran Desert and through riparian areas of sycamore […]