I'm not sure if it is a measure of cactus needle sharpness, or how thin cans are now, but when I tried to balance my hiking beer on this cholla, it fell off and punctured, forcing me to chug it.

Dixie Mountain Loop

2022-03-03 0

I haven’t gotten out of the house for anything more than a spin around the neighborhood since biking the Maricopa Trail three weeks ago. Funeral […]

Following the canyon bottom down, I found several attractive dryfalls.

Skyline Exploration

2022-02-04 0

There’s a lot of old jeep trails in what is now Skyline Regional Park. One of them appears to extend from Skyline’s main wash up […]

Blue Bike Sign

Bike Neighborhood

2022-01-30 0

I recently bought a new GoPro HERO10 Black. This after much consideration of other brands of action camera, including some that are mounted in sunglasses. […]

Looking down Bulldog Canyon, while Dome Mountain looks down on me. It was a bit chilly when I started hiking from Wolverine Gate at 8:20 a.m.

Bulldog Canyon

2022-01-27 0

There’s so many diverse places to hike in Arizona that — other than the Mogollon Rim — I figure I am doing well if I […]

Me, low on water, about 2:30 pm.

Pemberton Trail

2022-01-12 0

McDowell Mountain Regional Park is a 21,099 acre Maricopa County park north of Fountain Hills and east of the McDowell Mountains. MMRP is immediately adjacent to […]

Stone X at the east end of Gadsden Trail. The stone X overlooks Desert Rose Trail, which ends at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR), barely visible past that small hill in the middle.

Toothaker / Gadsden / Butterfield

2022-01-05 0

Estrella Mountain Regional Park is 19,840 acres of easy Sonoran Desert hiking. Officially, the most difficult trail is rated “moderate-difficult”, but Maricopa County tends to […]