Shaw Butte Trail #306
Shaw Butte is my go to hike when I can’t get away for an away from home hike. From the North Mountain Visitor Center, doing […]
Phoenix
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #7
I originally produced this as my fifth Phoenix Asshole Drivers video, but swapped that with my seventh video, as I thought I’d end the seventh […]
South Mountain Loop
Bajada → Ranger → National → Goat Hill → National → Bursera → Gila → National → Bajada I had planned to hike to Peter’s Cave, out near Tortilla Flat, in the Superstition […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #6
I used to commute ~12 miles each way, from Sunnyslope to Raintree and the 101 in Scottsdale. I left early enough that I would arrive […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #5 – Xmas Fun!
First, let me say that the SpyTec A118C dashcam is a heaving pile of shit. I have had nothing but problems with my crappy SpyTec […]
Dixie Mountain Loop
With the holidays coming up, I knew I wouldn’t have any time to do a long, out of town, hike, let alone the associated triplog, […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #4
More incidents of Phoenix drivers being assholes, including a left turn across six lanes, another appearance by Sergeant Halftrack and his Winnebago, and running a […]
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
Today was the fourth of my biannual South Mountain Freeway / Loop 202 survey hikes, that I started in April, 2015. The basic concept is […]
Shaw Butte, Computer Disaster & Phoenix Asshole Drivers #3
This week, I again scheduled myself to hike Tanner Peak. Yet again, the day before, I had my plans altered. Unlike last week, when I […]
North Mountain
I don’t normally blog about short, local, maintenance hikes. That would be boring: “Yeah, I hiked up Camelback. Again.” Well, except Camelback is a zoo, […]