Arizona again at last! Spring and my 16th year of doing this – having only missed ’92. A dry winter… and a little rain just a month earlier brought out some greenery, but not as much as most years. Though compared to how dry the areas around the KofA was – south and closer to [...]

This was an epic trip that I have many fond memories of. Ten days of off trail adventure in the Northern part of Yosemite Park. I had ventured into some of the areas on this trip two years previously. That trip was is July and I had some major rain at times. This one was [...]

I had read some articles on Peoples (Peeples) Canyon and read the write up in Exploring Arizona’s Wild Areas and was intrigued. Arizona Highways described the area as ‘one of the wonders of public land in Arizona’. Riparian areas in the desert are always beautiful places to visit and see the stark contrast between the wet and the dry. So I decided to take a Spring trip to this area. Five nights up through the canyon from the South and then looping back with a play-it-as-it-goes route coming back.

Apache Kid Wilderness is located not far from Hwy 25 about 3 hours South of Albuquerque. I had gone to New Mexico to visit friends in Albuquerque and had wanted to do some backpacking while there. Where, I wasn’t sure. It was still high season and I didn’t want to fight the crowds that go [...]

Wonder Mountain wilderness, neatly tucked into a remote section South of the Olympic National Park, is probably only really visited by locals. It’s a bit hard to find via the logging roads that wind around, there is no trailhead as there are no trails that lead into it. But as it was, I was with a local who had been there before and wanted to return for a backpack trip.