Outings
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This section focuses on the smaller adventures—the day trips, the day hikes, the quick weekend trips—that don’t classify as travel to me.
Check out the travel topic or my travel listing for those larger trips.
A short weekend at the Vegas Bowl
It was the only bowl game that we would be able to attend this season, given our other travel commitments. And it ended up being the one that ASU was…
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Kayaking the Salt River Under a Full Moon
One of my favorite annual trips to lead is a moonlight paddle down the Lower Salt River east of Phoenix. The Salt River is a great little trip either early…
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Driving the Black Hills Back Country Byway
There it was—an obscure, thin black line on a map, a 21-mile dirt road shortcutting two sections of Hwy 191 along the eastern edge of Arizona: the Black Hills Back Country Byway.…
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25¢ pony rides
What do you do when you’re driving a backcountry dirt road near the Mexican border—miles from any city—and you come across an offer you just can’t refuse? Well, I think…
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State parks I’ve visited
On the heels of news of more state park closures, I figured I should out myself as a mediocre park visitor. The truth is, despite being a native Arizonan, I’ve…
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Returning to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
It’s been far too long since I’ve been to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, a unit of BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System just west of Las Vegas, Nevada. It…
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Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
I finally got around to posting some pictures from the quick Sand Canyon hike I took in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument with co-workers in late September. It was…
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A Mother’s Day hike
This Mother’s Day, Kim and I decided to take my Mom out for a nice streamside hike. Parsons Trail, in the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Area within Coconino National Forest, has…
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