National Take a Hike Day – Kingsnake's Home Den

Small portion of the antenna farm atop Shaw Butte.

Shaw Butte Trail #306

2021-11-17 Hiking 0

Today, November 17, is National Take a Hike Day — something I only realized sometime in the past year. My two previous hikes on this […]

Low crawling one of many barbwire fences.

Smith Brothers Mine

2016-11-17 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

In my constant search for new things to check out, where I won’t have to fight hordes of perfume-reeking, boombox blasting, spandex-stretching weekend warriors, I […]

Sign outside the Blue Bird Cafe: "A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar." (Mark Twain)

Hackberry Spring Loop

2014-11-17 Hiking 0

This was my second time out at Hackberry Spring this year. Enjoyable day with nice people: AZLumberjack MinerMike and trekkin_gecko. 🙂 We checked out the […]