Hiking – Page 7 – Kingsnake's Home Den

Garbage in, and beside, Consolidated Canal increased as I hiked north through Mesa.

Freestone Park to Park of the Canals

2023-03-29 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 17th segment of the Maricopa Trail. One of my current projects is to hike or bike all 240 […]

Coulter's lupine were dominant on the east side of Hill 2308. (Also tons of them on I-8 and along AZ-84.)

Stanfield Hill 2308 Loop

2023-03-21 Hiking 0

Tuesday, I was scheduled for my monthly Lunch With Mom in Casa Grande. Wednesday, I was supposed to be hiking Seven Springs to Cave Creek with LosDosSloFolks, from […]

Clouds rolling in over Stanley Butte, seven miles northeast, just inside the San Carlos Apache Reservation.

Aravaipa Canyon Exploration

2023-03-01 Hiking 0

My plan — the one I had loaded in my GPS — was to follow BLM Route 5026 up Bear Canyon, over a ridge, and […]

Squeezing through Fat Man's Pass. Screen Cap from my new Ricoh WG-6 pocket camera -- which I'm not sure is an adequate replacement for my departed Panasonic DMC-TS5.

Maricopa Trail: Telegraph to Pima Canyon

2023-02-16 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 15th segment of the Maricopa Trail. At the beginning of 2021, I set out to day hike the […]

The first of two absolutely enormous rock formations on the north ridge of Creighton Peak. If this is the "stegosaurus", to me it looks like crouching panther that just pooped.

Sophie’s Flat & Dinosaur Wash

2023-02-08 Hiking 0

After being sick most of January, I need to build up some long distance hiking strength for my March trip to Aravaipa Canyon. (Or what […]

There were large swathes of moapa bladderpod (Physaria tenella) along Bajada Trail.

Maricopa Trail: Bajada to Telegraph Pass

2023-02-02 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 14th segment of the Maricopa Trail. The Maricopa Trail is a 315-mile trail system in & around the […]

Salt River, just above the confluence with the Gila River.

Maricopa Trail: PIR to Tres Rios Wetlands

2023-01-04 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 12th segment of the Maricopa Trail. Despite hitting 1,000 combined hiking & biking miles for 2022, I slacked […]