Beach Day! Derek and I used to ride up and down the coast a lot when we lived in San Diego. One of the good hill climb days would be to ride up through Torrey Pines Preserve and Mt. Soledad but I don’t think I ever hiked Torrey Pines. During our recent San Diego trip …
Over two decades ago when Derek and I lived in San Diego we spent countless hours riding in the mountains east of town. Whether it was Noble Canyon in the Laguna Mountains, or the fire roads and trails in the Cuyamaca Mountains, it was the best place to go on the weekend to get miles …
Happy December! We’re in Tucson for the holidays and have been enjoying the sunshine and family time. Our posts will be sporadic over the next few months. BUT, I forgot to do our last post from the Camp Verde area. We hiked around a little canyon by our camp spot to see some petroglyphs we …
Wanting a low key, quiet hike, we drove the short distance and hike Woods Canyon by Oak Creak. This is a pretty mellow hike that heads up the canyon along Beaver Creek. The creek was dry except for the small crossing at the trailhead where there was a small trickle. In the spring the waterflow …
So what if we’ve ridden in Sedona one thousand times, once more can’t hurt! We picked a weekday and off we went. For real though, we first came to Sedona to mountain bike back in the late 90’s and we have always had fun. We aren’t new to the trails and have ridden most of …
We were a little leary because the Bell Trail to Wet Beaver Creek is listed as one of the most popular hikes in the area and I dislike lots of people around when I hike. But, we figured it was worth a try and got an early start on a weekday. Turns out there was …
Established December 8, 1906, Montezuma Castle is the third National Monument dedicated to preserving Native American culture. We visited on a weekday and it’s a quick trip through the park to view the ruins. Neither part of this monument’s name is correct. When European-Americans first saw the ruins in the 1860s, by then long-abandoned, they …
Our two weeks on the Mogollon Rim were up and we moved on to a dispersed spot outside Camp Verde. I say our two weeks were up because you are allowed to stay 14 days in most forests before you have to leave or move (depending on the forest). We are pretty diligent about following …
Bear Canyon Lake hike was our last activity in the Mogollon Rim area. It’s fairly remote in that you have to drive in on some gravel roads, park, and hike down to it. There was nobody there on the weekday we hiked it! At an elevation of 7,560, Bear Canyon Lake consists of 60 surface …
Back during our first year of full time rving we stopped for a week in Payson and rode a different section of the Highline Trail. This time we started at the Highway 260 Trailhead and rode west to the See Canyon Trailhead and back. The Highline Trail follows the base of the Mogollon Rim and …