Granite Mountain Loop
First off, just to be clear, this is the Granite Mountain in north Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve — not the Granite Mountain in Prescott, made […]
Maricopa County
Phoenix Asshole Drivers Greatest Hits #3
Not doing too much hiking this March, 2020, what with coronavirus — aka Wuhan Flu, aka Sino Sinus Syphilis — cratering the entire country over […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #68
With all the coronavirus panic being spread by the mainstream media, I was worried about our trip to Houston last month, but soon after returning […]
North Mountain
Decided a long hike looking for flowers might not be a good choice today, so i’m sticking around the house. Watching radar, I snuck out […]
Phoenix Sonoran Preserve
My wife and I were in Houston the end of February, so I didn’t get a hike in the week we left, as we were […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #67: Houston 🚀
Wife and I were in Houston to visit family & friends there for the first time since November, 2014, when we made an emergency 1,000 […]
First Water to Canyon Lake
The two major trailheads for the Superstition Mountains are Peralta Trailhead to the south and First Water Trailhead to the north. Sure, there are others, […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #66
There’s one really good rant, I could have in this blog, but probably best that even I bite my tongue. 😇 Besides, I do enough […]
BCT: Boy Scout Loop
The Boy Scout Loop is the second segment, south-to-north, of the Black Canyon Trail. The BCT is a National Recreation Trail that stretches 80 miles […]
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
It first occured to me to check out the west end of South Mountain Park while hiking the Alta Trail up Maricopa Peak in March, […]