Peak Bagging

Looking at Moscow Peak (left) and Mount Union from the Mount Davis OP.

Mount Davis

2023-05-25 Hiking 0

Our plan was to do the usual double summit, but Yankee Doodle Trail #284 up Mount Union is closed. (It crosses a deeded mining claim, […]

Paul's pooch Lily, making snow angels at the Upper Saddle.

Hyde Mountain

2021-03-20 Hiking 0

After a complete lack of flowers at Picacho Peak and Phoenix Sonoran Preserve the last two weeks, I decided to skip this week’s scheduled Phoenix-area […]

The only sign on the Governors Peak hike announces the obvious. Notice the exposed plastic summit log container.

Governors Peak

2021-02-25 Hiking 0

Less than an hour from my home in Sunnyslope, Governors Peak is not far from Phoenix. The trailhead is on a dirt road, but one […]

Two outcroppings form the summit of Maricopa Peak. I am on the lower outcropping, looking northeast at the actual summit. The short scramble to the top is either side of the dark rock with graffiti on it.

Maricopa Peak

2021-02-11 Hiking 0

I was going to hike another segment of the Maricopa Trail today, but my wife was visiting family in Florida, and hiking from Anthem to […]

Bigtooth Maple on Pioneer Trail #196.

Pioneer Trail #196

2019-10-18 Hiking 0

The first stop on this year’s Arizona fall color tour was Lockett Meadow to Inner Basin in the San Francisco Peaks. The second stop, last […]

Tanner Peak

2017-06-04 Hiking 3

I’ve had Tanner Peak on my list for two years, since I hiked Armer Mountain, looking for the West Point C-47 wreckage. The last time […]