Maricopa Trail: Spur Cross to CCRP
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 2nd segment of the Maricopa Trail. Heading into this week’s hike, I’d heard that flowers were going nuts, […]
Maricopa County
Buckeye Copper Mine 2
I was thinking of heading back out to the Dripping Spring Mountains, on the undefined border of Gila County & Pinal County, for some more […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #42
I figured in this blog post I would talk about how I select what dashcam bits get put into a Phoenix Asshole Drivers video. It’s […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #41
Spreading the PTSD love on this musical Valentine’s Day edition of Phoenix Asshole Drivers. 💘 Why, there’s hardly any cuss words at all! Well, until […]
Black Mesa Loop
Last week I explored Big Stick Mine, on the Santa Maria River, about a two hour drive from my home in Sunnyslope. So, this week […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #40
Before I retired, depending on which office I worked in, I would either commute six miles each way from Sunnyslope to Missouri St. in Phoenix, […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers: Michael Joe Jolls
My wife & I were on our way out of Sunnyslope, southbound on 7th St. at 11:37 a.m. Just as we passed the Arizona Canal, […]
Guadelupe Ridge & Fat Man’s Pass
Fray Marcos de Niza (c. 1495-1558) was a Italian Franciscan friar who, in 1531, arrived in Spanish America to be a missionary. In 1536, the […]
Tom’s Thumb & Ogre’s Den
Last week, I tried taking the Climbers Access Route up East End Mountain to Tom’s Thumb. I had to bail when I encountered a section […]
Climbers’ Route to Tom’s Thumb?
After my last hike, on Prospect Trail in Nevada’s Valley of Fire, it was back home this week. Being winter, I planned another ‘Locals Hike’, […]