Tonto National Forest

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 […]

The first four miles of Cave Creek Trail #4 are by far the best. (Mainly due to many awesome saguaro.)

Cave Creek Trail #4

2025-04-09 Hiking 0

Cave Creek Trail #4, per the National Forest Service, “passes through the Arizona Upland Phase of the Sonoran Desert and through riparian areas of sycamore […]

A coconut!?

Hawes Trail System

2024-12-11 Hiking 0

I hadn’t put my shoes on dirt in three weeks, and hadn’t done a decent hike since Coachwhip Trail and Arrowhead Point Trail in Thunderbird […]

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. […]

I believe these are cutleaf nightshade (Solanum xanti), not silverleaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium), as the latter bloom later, at lower elevation. This is about 3,250 el., near Sears Kay Ruins.

Bartlett Dam Rd. to FR 1058

2024-04-08 Hiking 0

Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 25th segment of the Maricopa Trail. In the intro for the previous Maricopa Trail video, I said Granite […]

Red Mountain is visible from most of the Hawes Trail System.

Hawes Trail System

2024-02-27 Hiking 0

I’ve never been to the Hawes Trail System before. You just don’t hear aboout people hiking it much. It’s popular with mountain bikers. Maybe they […]