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RJ Peak

2024-10-22 Hiking 0

RJ Peak is not a long hike — only 1.38 miles roundtrip — but there is a “complete” description here. Though short, RJ Peak gives […]

Inside the storage tank of a wildlife "guzzler". The glow is the outlet to the "escape ramp", where game drink.

General Crook Trail: V99-V107

2024-10-16 Hiking 0

Heading east from Dewey, this is the 13th segment of General Crook Trail. I believe the original General Crook Trail continues along Rim Road to Show […]

Leaves were either brown or green, maybe 40/60. No in-between. More fall color.

PCT: Goldwater Lake to White Spar

2024-10-09 Hiking 0

The Prescott Circle Trail is a 56-mile mostly dirt loop around the city of Prescott. The “Other” PCT is a multiuse trail, which means hikers, […]

7:00 a.m.: Bush Highway at AZ-87 (aka Beeline Highway). Mazatzal Mountains ahead.

General Crook Trail Bail

2024-10-02 Hiking 0

I planned to hike the 12th segment of the General Crook Trail. I knew AZ-87 had landslide clearance going on north of Sunflower from 8:00 p.m. […]

Looking up at Fisher Point, from the junction of Sandys Canyon and Walnut Canyon. Despite the nearby Brigade Fire, the sky really was this blue.

Sandys Canyon & Walnut Canyon

2024-09-25 Hiking 0

My pal Baron, his wife, and their two dogs, were camping by the Naval Observatory on Anderson Mesa. So, I drove up to Flagstaff for this […]

Carvers Creek, at the Longleaf Pine Trail crossing.

Carvers Creek State Park

2024-09-12 Hiking 0

This weekend was the third reunion of my old Army outfit, TACCP, Alpha Company, 50th Signal Battalion, 35th Signal Brigade … AIRBORNE! The first reunion […]

Phoenix Park is more peaceful than parks IN Phoenix. Hairy golden aster in foreground; wild horses in distance.

General Crook Trail: V89-V99

2024-08-28 Hiking 0

Heading east from Dewey, this is the 12th segment of General Crook Trail. The General Crook Trail is named after General George Crook, who surveyed a […]

East Leonard Canyon

2024-08-21 Hiking 0

I haven’t done a canyon crawl in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest since I sliced my arm in West Chevelon Canyon fourteen months ago. Sure, I did a […]

Very nice patch of silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus) at the south end of the second enclosure.

Houston Brothers Trail #171

2024-07-31 Hiking 0

I was going to hike hike Porcupine Ridge, near Woods Canyon, at the east end of the Mogollon Rim, but AZ-87 to Payson was closed down due […]

Orange sneezeweed (Hymenoxys hoopesii) on the summit of Mount Lemmon. I found orange sneezeweed as low as 7,900 ft. el., near Mint Spring.

Mount Lemmon from Mint Spring

2024-07-17 Hiking 0

I’m trying to make Mount Lemmon, and its environs, an annual summer hiking trip. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy hiking the much closer Mogollon Rim, but […]