Pinal County – Kingsnake's Home Den

Looking across Forest Road 4 and Telegraph Canyon, towards Picketpost Mountain.

Roadside Memorials #6

2025-08-24 Cemetery 0

Interstate 8 After exploring the Agua Caliente ghost town, we drove east from Dateland, towards Gila Bend, picking up the frontage road near Theba. (Because stopping […]

Mansel Carter, and his Cherokee sidekick Marion Kennedy, were mid-20th century prospectors in the San Tan Mountains. When Carter passed in 1987, Queen Creek was still mostly rural. Now, it is a city of 76,000, extending nearly to Florence. The Carter & Kennedy graves are just off Goldmine Trail, ⅓ mile south of Goldmine Trailhead.

San Tan Mountain Regional Park

2025-02-19 Hiking 0

It’s a long drive from Sunnyslope to Queen Creek, so it’s been three years since I last hiked San Tan Mountain Regional Park. Back then, […]

7:00 a.m.: Bush Highway at AZ-87 (aka Beeline Highway). Mazatzal Mountains ahead.

General Crook Trail Bail

2024-10-02 Hiking 0

I planned to hike the 12th segment of the General Crook Trail. I knew AZ-87 had landslide clearance going on north of Sunflower from 8:00 p.m. […]

On top of the mesa, looking across a rugged side canyon, towards the summit of Picketpost Mountain.

Picketpost Mesa Explore

2023-12-12 Hiking 0

When I last visited Arnett Canyon and Telegraph Canyon in 2018, I first hiked along the east rim of Arnett. From that vantage point, I […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #112

2023-09-22 Dashcam 0

I vaguely remember two auto accidents from my youth: The first accident was on I-43 just north of the Milwaukee airport. A car had eaten […]

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 […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #108

2023-06-04 Dashcam 0

I call myself out when I make mistakes, but unfortunately multi-hour trips several days in a row meant the dashcam footage was overwritten for the […]

Coulter's lupine were dominant on the east side of Hill 2308. (Also tons of them on I-8 and along AZ-84.)

Stanfield Hill 2308 Loop

2023-03-21 Hiking 0

Tuesday, I was scheduled for my monthly Lunch With Mom in Casa Grande. Wednesday, I was supposed to be hiking Seven Springs to Cave Creek with LosDosSloFolks, from […]

Kingsnake’s Dashcam #104

2023-01-29 Dashcam 0

I used to get really sick once per winter, for a couple of weeks. The three Chinese Lung AIDs winters — 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 […]

The Flagpole on Casa Grande 1. Looking northeast across the Sacaton Mountains to the distant Superstition Mountains (right). Casa Grande 1 and the antenna farm are visible on the left.

Bolt Trail – Casa Grande Mountains

2022-10-18 Hiking 0

Tuesday, I was scheduled for my monthly Lunch With Mom in Casa Grande. Wednesday, was supposed to be watching Celtic F.C. at The Desmond in […]