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*** Samuel (Dipodomys microps) wakes up after a third prodding from his mother. You have to get up. Uhhh, its not even late mom. She looks down at her son and pushes her nose into him again. She’s not messing around. He rubs his eyes and begins to rise, his sagging belly droops across the...

Went out this past weekend to hike Coyote Buttes. Gotta say it was pretty swell. This report will be mostly photos because I don't know how to add in much about this hike that hasn't been said by myself or others in different trip reports. I got all excited that there was going to be a pond...

The following is crossposted from my blog. At Saguaro National Park I picked out 2 hikes that we had to do. One was to the Gould Mine, the other was to see the Signal Hill Petroglyphs. I picked the hike to the Gould Mine because it sounded like a cool end destination. I discovered that the best...

Thank you for allowing me to take over the canyoneering forum for a spell. I hope you enjoyed the journey. After a lunch....oh the joy on Jenny's face when Rich shared his salami....we headed down a slot. One that had been scoured clean and very beautiful the year before. Rich lamented the...

The following day plus, involved working our way up toward the rim, but not so focused on task to miss several mini-slot opportunities. After ascending and descending a lovely non tech canyon, we found a camp for the night. Rich knew where water was. Over an hour later he came back, having...

We awake in the canyon. There are these slanted ledges, with steps and many of us fit in the grooves, swaddled in smooth limestone.We assume the canyon will release us soon and we will be at the river promptly. We figured wrong. Three rappel anchors must be built. The usual solution is found...

A few days later, back for more...... One Grand Canyon trip down, a few days rest and back out for a 5 day 6 night encore. I wasn't going to be able to go, as it was going too end to late in the month, so I tossed an idea out. "Move it up 5 days?" The trip leaders said yes. I was shocked and...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Afternoon of Day 6 to mid- morning Day 7 For 5 and a half days I have carried these pool toys. Time to inflate and cast off to whatever awaits. I have done enough pack rafting to know that I am not particularly good at it. Also...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Day 5 to midday Day 6 We wake early. It is day 5 of 7 and we are still moving further away from where we started. Enough dead burro water too!. We head up Dump Truck fork and it is a delight. Redwall rim gives way to Supai...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Next installment Day 3 & 4 Up not so early the next morning, Jenny and are first out of camp at 9:30. We hike the 1/4 mile to the break and down to the river and note that a river trip came around the corner and is coming over...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Day 1 & 2 Having been a "bit player" in the Grand Canyon slot explorations, I had listened in and gathered, that with the Great Thumb closed to access, that a combo of 150 Mile Canyon, Matkatamebia, Panameta and Olo, with a...

Apologies if anyone has seen this trip report on another site, but I've never put one on here and thought it's about time. A few new photos are on this one though, but I couldn't attach the panoramics unfortunately because when I tried uploading here it said they used too much memory. I'll...

I had purchased permits for Coyote Buttes South for three days on the BLM website. It’s easy to get permits this time of year, and it seems like I’m ready to go again whenever February comes around. The dates were Monday, Feb. 3 - Wednesday, Feb. 5. For weeks we’d had hardly a cloud in the sky...

Friday - Sunday, January 31 - February 2, 2014 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO I had another permit to Coyote Buttes North this Saturday, so I decided to spend the weekend down around the Paria. The weather looked like it was going to be pretty nice so I was looking forward to getting...

My son, Dallin, is a member of the Academy Drum Corps, a drum corp based in the Phoenix area. I decided to go with him down to his monthly rehearsal camp over the weekend. Frequent flier-funded flights mandated that we return on Monday, so he found a canyon for us to hike Monday morning...

Wire Pass to Lee's Ferry, we celebrated our jubilee "20 years of traveling in the USA" w/ this trip. This backpacking trip, was the first 4-day-trip, in our life. All my impressions to frame in words, is to hard for me. My English is like a back road, after a flash flood. I hope folks, you...

Friday - Monday, November 8-11, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Last November I said that I was going to be taking a little break from visiting the Paria Plateau, and I have. However, almost exactly a year later I was ready to go back for another visit and managed to get another...

Another trip report crossposted from my blog. This was an outstanding ghost town that didn't seem to see too many visitors. It's in a beautiful canyon in a somewhat remote area in SE Arizona. I'm not sure when I first heard about Camp Rucker. It was sometime within the past year, maybe in...

Crossposted from my blog. In February over Presidents Day we went on a small camping trip out to the area of Chiricahua National Monument. We thought spending a few days exploring the area would be fun. We found a great little campsite up Pinery Canyon, a few miles south of the monument. Once...

Photo: House Rock Rapid and Rider Canyon South Canyon to Soap Canyon ~ Grand Canyon Hiking with Botanists Glenn Rink and Steve Till In my efforts to complete a Grand Canyon Traverse I have never stumbled on such rough, unstable, scary terrain for so long a distance. Hiking this section in...