Mogollon Rim

Orange jelly. I hadn't seen it in several years, but found it in three places below FR 321C in McClintock Draw.

McClintock Draw

2025-10-22 Hiking 0

McClintock Draw is a small canyon on the Mogollon Rim, between McClintock Ridge and Dane Ridge. McClintock Draw extends for only 2¾ miles, before emptying […]

A half mile of FR 95, on both sides of Bear Canyon, was closed in May, 2019, after flooding wiped out the crossing. I heard there was a bridge there, but I saw no bridge remains, of any kind, upstream of Quien Sabe Draw.

Quien Sabe Draw

2025-09-04 Hiking 0

Quien Sabe Draw is a small canyon on the Mogollon Rim, between Turkey Pen Ridge and Fred Haught Ridge. Only 2½ miles long, Quien Sabe […]

I love the way the false hellebore / corn lily frames the pine needles.

Sandstone Canyon

2025-07-02 Hiking 0

Sandstone Canyon is a short canyon that starts at Sandstone Tank, and ends only 2¼ miles later at West Leonard Canyon. Sandstone Canyon is dead […]

Porcupine Canyon had several sections of exposed bedrock. No pooling though.

Porcupine Canyon

2025-06-18 Hiking 0

Today’s Mogollon Rim canyon crawl is down an unnamed canyon. Let’s call it “Porcupine Canyon”, after Porcupine Ridge, which forms its west flank. After exiting […]

I found this photogenic little cliff about a quarter mile from where I exited East Leonard Canyon.

East Leonard Canyon

2024-08-21 Hiking 0

I haven’t done a canyon crawl in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest since I sliced my arm in West Chevelon Canyon fourteen months ago. Sure, I did a […]