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Maricopa Trail

Clouds over the South Canal.

Park of the Canals to Granite Reef Dam

2023-05-04 Bike Riding 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 18th segment of the Maricopa Trail. Last month, I was in Maryland, day hiking the 184 mile Chesapeake […]

Garbage in, and beside, Consolidated Canal increased as I hiked north through Mesa.

Freestone Park to Park of the Canals

2023-03-29 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 17th segment of the Maricopa Trail. One of my current projects is to hike or bike all 245 […]

Lunch at Joe's BBQ in downtown Gilbert. The Maricopa Trail passes right by the restaurant district.

Maricopa Trail: Pima Cyn – Freestone Park

2023-03-16 Bike Riding 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 16th segment of the Maricopa Trail. My goal is to hike or bike all 245 miles of the […]

Squeezing through Fat Man's Pass. Screen Cap from my new Ricoh WG-6 pocket camera -- which I'm not sure is an adequate replacement for my departed Panasonic DMC-TS5.

Maricopa Trail: Telegraph to Pima Canyon

2023-02-16 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 15th segment of the Maricopa Trail. At the beginning of 2021, I set out to day hike the […]

There were large swathes of moapa bladderpod (Physaria tenella) along Bajada Trail.

Maricopa Trail: Bajada to Telegraph Pass

2023-02-02 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 14th segment of the Maricopa Trail. The Maricopa Trail is a 315-mile trail system in & around the […]

Brittlebush in front of Alta Ridge. The only other desert flowers I saw were creasote and desert marigold.

Maricopa Trail: Tres Rios to Bajada TH

2023-01-19 Bike Riding 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 13th segment of the Maricopa Trail. My goal is to hike or bike all 245 miles of the […]

Salt River, just above the confluence with the Gila River.

Maricopa Trail: PIR to Tres Rios Wetlands

2023-01-04 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 12th segment of the Maricopa Trail. Despite hitting 1,000 combined hiking & biking miles for 2022, I slacked […]

Indicating the direction to turn on the Desert Rose Trail. You can't get lost with all the signs!

Maricopa Trail: Estrellas to PIR

2022-12-15 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 11th segment of the Maricopa Trail. One of my current projects is to hike or bike all 245 […]

Maricopa Trail: Verrado to Estrellas

2022-11-15 Bike Riding 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 10th segment of the Maricopa Trail. At the beginning of 2021, I set out to day hike the […]

There's lots of Maricopa Trail signs to guide you across the multi-tracked Sonoran Desert. (GoPro screen cap)

Maricopa Trail: White Tanks to Verrado

2022-10-12 Bike Riding 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 9th segment of the Maricopa Trail. Back to another one of my ongoing day-hiking “thru” hike projects: the […]

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