Shaw Butte Trail #306
Shaw Butte is my go to hike when I can’t get away for an away from home hike. From the North Mountain Visitor Center, doing […]
Locals Hike
South Mountain Loop
Bajada → Ranger → National → Goat Hill → National → Bursera → Gila → National → Bajada I had planned to hike to Peter’s Cave, out near Tortilla Flat, in the Superstition […]
Desert Park-Windgate Pass-Gateway Loop
With a short week due to being in Las Vegas last week, and Mission Viejo for Christmas, and working on the subsequent Valley of Fire […]
Dixie Mountain Loop
With the holidays coming up, I knew I wouldn’t have any time to do a long, out of town, hike, let alone the associated triplog, […]
North Mountain
I don’t normally blog about short, local, maintenance hikes. That would be boring: “Yeah, I hiked up Camelback. Again.” Well, except Camelback is a zoo, […]
Shaw Butte & North Mountain Double Summit
I’ve had it in mind for quite some time to do a double summit of Shaw Butte and North Mountain. North Mountain, as most people […]
Ford Canyon Loop
Working too hard on transferring data from my old site to this new one to take time to set up anything outside of town. I […]
Piestewa Peak
Most of my out of town hikes this month have been short, but I didn’t want to invest 4+ hours round trip drive time either, […]
Shaw Butte Trail #306
63°, partly cloudy, no breeze when I started at 1300. Perfect weather. Took Trail #100 to the NMVC, then started clockwise on #306. The little […]
Lookout Mountain
Got a late start because I was working on a non-hiking video project. 60°, and totally overcast, when I left home in Sunnyslope at 1500. Caught […]