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 […]
Maricopa County
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #5 – Xmas Fun!
First, let me say that the SpyTec A118C dashcam is a heaving pile of shit. I have had nothing but problems with my crappy SpyTec […]
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, […]
Amtrak Sunset Limited / Agua Caliente Rd.
Today was another expedition I’ve had gestating for awhile. (Almost two years, since Stoic and I visited the rock art at the Sundad ghost town.) I […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #4
More incidents of Phoenix drivers being assholes, including a left turn across six lanes, another appearance by Sergeant Halftrack and his Winnebago, and running a […]
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
Today was the fourth of my biannual South Mountain Freeway / Loop 202 survey hikes, that I started in April, 2015. The basic concept is […]
Shaw Butte, Computer Disaster & Phoenix Asshole Drivers #3
This week, I again scheduled myself to hike Tanner Peak. Yet again, the day before, I had my plans altered. Unlike last week, when I […]
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, […]
Tour de Arizona
We had family in town this week. With one exception, they had never really experienced Arizona. So, we did some Phoenix tourist things that even […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #2
I suffer from PTSD: Phoenix Traffic Stress Disorder. Last year, when I first thought of documenting the daily hell that is driving in Maricopa County, […]