Lost Dog Wash Trail to Taliesin Overlook
Lost Dog Wash Trail to Taliesin Overlook is 2.1 miles, 400 ft. accumulated elevation gain (AEG), outbound. Only 60 AEG on the return trip. Alternately, Ringtail […]
McDowell Sonoran Preserve
Granite Mountain TH to Bartlett Dam Rd
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 24th segment of the Maricopa Trail. The Maricopa Trail is a 315-mile trail system around the Phoenix metro […]
Tom’s Thumb TH to Granite Mountain TH
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 23rd segment of the Maricopa Trail. Not doing my planned South Mountain hike last week gave me time […]
Gateway Trailhead to Tom’s Thumb TH
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 22nd segment of the Maricopa Trail. The Maricopa Trail is a 315-mile trail system in & around the […]
Taliesin West to Gateway Trailhead
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 21st segment of the Maricopa Trail. My goal is to hike or bike all 240 miles of the […]
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 […]
Brown’s Mountain Loop
Brown’s Mountain is a formation in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, north of the ritzy Troon North Golf Club. It is part of a chain of […]
Dixie Mine Loop
After two weeks of minimal physical activity, including seven days sitting in my car, driving to & from Maryland, I needed to do some real […]
Granite Mountain Loop
First off, just to be clear, this is the Granite Mountain in north Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve — not the Granite Mountain in Prescott, made […]
Windgate Pass-Bell Pass Loop
I spend the middle months of the year hiking in higher, somewhat cooler, locations, often involving long drives. Because, other than the Sky Islands, like […]