Pima County – Kingsnake's Home Den

At the bottom of Sabino Canyon, looking up at the Aspen Trail #93 view point.

Marshall Peak Loop

2025-07-15 Hiking 0

This week was our annual summer trip to Mount Lemmon. You could hike up from Tucson, but if you do you are much stronger hiker […]

Orange sneezeweed (Hymenoxys hoopesii) on the summit of Mount Lemmon. I found orange sneezeweed as low as 7,900 ft. el., near Mint Spring.

Mount Lemmon from Mint Spring

2024-07-17 Hiking 0

I’m trying to make Mount Lemmon, and its environs, an annual summer hiking trip. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy hiking the much closer Mogollon Rim, but […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #110

2023-07-27 Dashcam 0

Besides the California refugees that started showing up in Phoenix a couple of years ago, Arizona is starting to get folks moving in from other […]

Crystal Spring Trail #17

2023-07-19 Hiking 0

It has now been three years since the Bighorn Fire, and two years since I last hiked the Catalina Mountains. In 2021, I attempted Butterfly […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #97

2022-06-26 Dashcam 0

I’ve been doing a lot more local driving the last two weeks due to … reasons. Most of it to the area east of downtown […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #96

2022-06-01 Dashcam 0

Even back in the 80s, it was obvious Phoenix wanted to be Los Angeles when it grew up. Just, back then, without any freeways. (I-10 […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #86

2021-08-31 Dashcam 0

It’s been 11 months since YouTube unceremoniously defenestrated my account. I uploaded 380-something old YT videos to my Vimeo account, but with fewer — and […]