Maricopa County

Blue Bike Sign

Bike Neighborhood

2022-01-30 Bike Riding 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 Hiking 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 Bike Riding 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 Hiking 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 […]

Balanced "mushroom" at Mushroom Rock Scenic Point. Tom's Thumb Trailhead visible on the left. It is an easy one mile roundtrip to Mushroom Rock Scenic Point.

Marcus Landslide

2021-12-23 Hiking 0

Marcus Landslide was “discovered” in 2002 by two ASU geography post-grads. Surely, many people had looked at the rocks before, but the students were the […]