Maricopa Trail: Lake Pleasant – 119th Ave
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 6th segment of the Maricopa Trail. My goal is to hike or bike all 240 miles of the […]
Maricopa County
Skyline Exploration
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 […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #91
Fifteen years ago, I commuted from Sunnyslope to Scottsdale for work. I would head out at 5:30 a.m. to avoid the morning rush, but even […]
Bike Neighborhood
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. […]
Bulldog Canyon
There’s so many diverse places to hike in Arizona that — other than the Mogollon Rim — I figure I am doing well if I […]
South Mountain: Pyramid Loop
Every winter, I do hikes in lower elevations, where there is no snow. Most of those are what I call a “locals hike“: Phoenix area hikes […]
Pemberton Trail
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 […]
Toothaker / Gadsden / Butterfield
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 […]
Kingsnake’s Dashcam #90
Winter is officially upon us. It is -8℉ in Flagstaff as I type. Thankfully, “only” 36℉ in Phoenix. So, this is the time of year […]
Marcus Landslide
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 […]