Derrick-Highline-Horton Loop
I waited until late on Thursday to come up with something. I checked weather reports for Payson, Prescott and Peeples Valley trying to figure out […]
Mogollon Rim
East Miller Canyon
You are only lost if you have no idea where you are and no idea how to get to where you want to be. I have […]
Pine 2 Strawberry
Hardscrabble Mesa AZT #26 → Walnut Trail #251 → Pine-Strawberry Trail #15 Rather than following the initial route south, I cut straight across AZ-87, using the culvert just […]
Geronimo TH to Pine
I knew I wouldn’t be able to get out today, 8/16, so I made this my Airborne Day hike. (The first U.S. military jump, by […]
Rock Wall Trail #608
Started from larger parking area about a quarter mile north of the official trailhead, on the west side of the road. Plenty of parking there. […]
Pine Canyon Trail #26
I hiked south from Hwy 87. There was a controlled burn, the Horse Tank Fire, right up to the edge of the highway. I stopped […]
Pivot Rock Canyon
I try to divide my summer time between west and east uplands. Problem turned out to be, it’s not quite summer. I saw my jacket. […]
West Bear Canyon
I was planning on being up here anyway to look for colors, and hopefully find some close to wherever I parked so that my wife […]
Mogollon Rim Vista Loop
Rodeo is in Payson next weekend — 8/14-16 — so I figured I’d best do the Mogollon Rim Vista Loop today, rather than fight an […]
East Bear Canyon
FERN-O-RAMA! Another last minute throw together. Wanted to do something in Prescott, but with the rodeo there and me *hating* crowds — and traffic — I figured […]