SCHULTZ FIRE REHABILITATION PLANS

Good news hikers---the forest service has rolled out the Schultz Fire rehabilitation plan. Last summer, this blaze devastated many of our be...

BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM

BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM Superior So far, 2011 has been a disappointing year for desert wildflowers. For instance, last week, I drove up to...

BOULDERS TRAIL

BOULDERS LOOP TRAIL Payson From the looks of the deteriorating Tonto National Forest sign at the trailhead, this route was, at one t...

WOLF CREEK FALLS

WOLF CREEK FALLS Prescott Wolf Creek is dry most of the year, but when winter snow on the Bradshaw Mountain peaks begins to melt, this water...

MONUMENT PEAK

MONUMENT PEAK LOOP Payson This easy loop trail swings around the base of 5,092-foot Monument Peak—a pyramid-shaped granite monolith in south...

RACKENSACK CANYON

RACKENSACK CANYON Cave Creek Occupying a non-descript crack in the landscape just a few miles north of the tony golf communities of Cave Cre...

THEY'RE BAAAAAAAAK

RATTLESNAKE ENCOUNTER Had my first rattlesnake encounter of 2011 today while hiking near Cave Creek. This handsome fellow (or gal---I wasn...

SPRING WILDFLOWER SEASON 2011

WILDFLOWER SEASON IS HERE! Arizona's 2011 spring wildflower season got off to a slow start, but thanks to some much needed rain in the l...