Scouting Woods Canyon
In July, 2020, I attempted a through hike of Willow Springs Canyon and Woods Canyon. Long story short, I bit off more than I could […]
Mogollon Rim
Middle Leonard Canyon
Middle Leonard Canyon is a four mile long canyon, located on the Mogollon Rim between Hospital Ridge and Knoll Ridge. Middle Leonard Canyon starts on […]
Turkey Springs #217 & West Webber #228
Unless you count North Mountain, I haven’t hiked much the past month. (In fact, just once, Butterfly Trail #16 in the Catalinas.) We’ve had record […]
Willow Springs Canyon Rim
A month ago, five out of six national forests in Arizona, plus BLM and State Trust land, shut down for the 2021 wildfire season. I […]
East Clear Creek Loop
I was too wore out last Thursday — after hammering out two blogs and two videos from our Telluride trip — to do an “away” […]
Bear Canyon Lake
Gradually transitioning from bike riding, I didn’t become a regular hiker until 2011. That was also the year I did my first Mogollon Rim hike, […]
Merritt Draw & Maverick Canyon
Hiking Merritt Draw and Maverick Canyon was my eighth, and likely last, Mogollon Rim hike of 2020. It might be a little early yet, even at […]
Gentry Canyon – Mogollon Rim
I’ve been hitting the Mogollon Rim pretty hard this year, but I need to up my game if I will ever reach my goal of […]
Upper Miller Canyon
Two years ago, I hiked middle Miller Canyon, the four miles north of FR 141H. (“Middle” is the section, not the actual name of the […]
Woods Canyon Lake
The weatherman was predicting it would be 117℉ in Phoenix, near 100℉ in Prescott and Payson — the latter of which is in the closed […]