Shaw Butte & North Mountain Double Summit
I’ve had it in mind for quite some time to do a double summit of Shaw Butte and North Mountain. North Mountain, as most people […]
Peak Bagging
Harquahala Peak
Harquahala Peak is the highest point in the Harquahala Mountains, which stretch from Aguila, in the far west end of Maricopa County, to Salome, in […]
Piestewa Peak
Most of my out of town hikes this month have been short, but I didn’t want to invest 4+ hours round trip drive time either, […]
Vulture Peak
So, the desert race having been last week, I planned on hitting Camp Bouse Peak this week. Rather than take the long route via Bouse […]
Roblas Butte
While I putting together my 2015 photo highlights video, I realized that what looked like good photos, viewed normally, did not look quite so good […]
Little Four Peaks
42° from Phoenix to Apache Junction. Got to AJ too soon for store to be open to buy the jacket I forgot. All the way […]
Lookout Mountain
Got a late start because I was working on a non-hiking video project. 60°, and totally overcast, when I left home in Sunnyslope at 1500. Caught […]
Cedar Mountain
The main event of my weekend. My purpose for being up north. A hike I’ve been planning for a couple of years, ever since someone […]
Armer Mountain
Located just north of the east end of Roosevelt Lake in Gila County’s Sierra Ancha, Armer Mountain is where, on December 30, 1951, a C-47 […]