R Scott Jones

According to the email notices, I’ve been Flickr “pro” subscriber for an entire year now. I was a bit skeptical when I first joined, especially since I already ran my own hiking pictures website, but I’m quite glad I went ahead and paid the $25. First, it’s very easy to use, and I am usually much better about posting pictures as a result. In addition, it serves a slightly different niche for me than scottpics.com. On that website, I try to post only pictures from hikes or national or state parks. On Flickr, I post whatever photos I’d like–some even from my cameraphone. The fact that there’s a great wordpress plugin available to display those pictures on this here website simply seals the deal.

Sign me up for year #2.

I finally got around to posting some of the pictures from my March trip up to the Arizona Strip. Recently added:

• The day I spent in the Mt Trumbull area of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, including a stops at the Mt Trumbull Schoolhouse and the Nampaweap Rock Art Site.
• My hike on the Wire Pass trail in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area, through cool slot canyons in the heart of red rock country.
• A quick stop to Toroweap Point, the least-visited ranger station along the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
• An evening walk around the LDS temple in St George, which is relatively impressive at night
• My visit to the Johnson Ranch Dinosaur Discovery Center, the largest collection of dinosaur tracks in the world.

At some point, I’ll add the pictures I took of the GCPNM tour I took with the BLM/NPS, as well as some random shots, including of the Navajo Bridge. But in the meanwhile, enjoy what’s now online!

Despite our plans to backpack to Lousy Canyon in Agua Fria National Monument (scrapped late Friday night), then hike to Pueblo Pato via Badger Springs (scrapped Saturday morning, and again Sunday morning after we got up too late both days), we managed only a short hike in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve (pictures here). We wandered around on several trails in the North Mountain trail complex during the heat of the day, and brought the dog along with us. We don’t include him on many hikes, and it shows. He was pretty tired after the relatively short hike, and certainly wouldn’t have been up for the longer jaunt we had originally planned for the day. However, it was nice to spend a bit of the weekend out of the house and exercising, though I think we were both disappointed that we didn’t get to one of the longer hikes. With the Spring Game and some interesting Archaeology Month activities next weekend, I doubt we’ll make it to Lousy Canyon before it gets too hot. I guess we’ll have to push it off until the fall.