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Yes! The John Muir Trail was a fantastic adventure and I’ve arrived back home recharged and loaded with photos! I started in Yosemite National Park and finished 150 miles and 12 days later in Bishop, California. Along the way I climbed stunning mountain passes, walked along crystal clear lakes teeming with fish, saw lots of [...]

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The Mogollon Rim is a ridge that runs high above the Colorado Plateau, roughly 200 miles long and 7,000 feet above sea level. It’s a wilderness enthusiast’s playground, with lots of lakes, trails and canyons. Zane Grey lived just below the rim and many books such as “Riders of the Purple Sage” were set in [...]

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Drove to Cameron Trading Post, Grand Canyon, Flagstaff and Sedona all in one day!

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Trying out a few new techniques in Photoshop to add a bit of punch to my images…

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Fossil Springs is a beautiful wilderness area in central Arizona, just outside the town of Strawberry. The fast running springs are located deep within a canyon and surrounded by a lush riparian habitat. As we drove north in the early evening, ominous clouds gathered and sputtered rain. Looking back, I should have realized this was [...]

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Wow! What a great adventure! We’ve just finished a four-day trip that took us 400’ underground in the Cave of the Bells and then 8000’ above sea level toward the summit of Mt. Wrightston in southern Arizona. The Cave of the Bells is a very cool, but dangerous underground wilderness, known for its unique and [...]

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On Friday we rented a couple kayaks and headed to Goat Mountain, located in the Tonto National Forest on the north shore of Apache Lake. We were able to fit both of the twelve foot kayaks inside Big Blue! We arrived at the lake in the late afternoon, strapped our packs to the kayaks and [...]

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There’s a popular story around here about a man named Jacob Waltz, better known as “the Lost Dutchman”, who in 1891, while lying on his death bed, told a story of a gold mine that held untold riches. He had said that it laid deep within the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Treasure hunters have [...]

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Sycamore Canyon drains a large area of the western Mogollon Rim and often floods during the spring snow melt. Our plan was to descend down to Sycamore Creek and follow it to Parsons Spring, about four  miles from the trailhead. The autumn colors were still stubbornly hanging on to their branches and provided a gorgeous [...]

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Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

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Just outside Miami, Arizona.

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This weekend we explored Aravaipa Canyon, cutting through the Galiuro Mountains near Winkleman, Arizona. This is a classic desert riparian habitat for a wide variety of animals and plants and wow did we see them! As we entered the area, a family of Coatimundi marched across the road in front of us – members of [...]

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Just finished this one today while smoking ribs… might be my favorite so far! Pretty large (30 X 40) acrylic, with a lot going on. I decided to tone down the high contrast saguaros I typically paint and I think it worked well.

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I shot the same image twice – the lower part is a shot of the canyon in the dying light of the day and the sky is the sunset we enjoyed about an hour later. The composite image didn’t turn out as nicely as I hoped, but it illustrates how beautiful that location is at [...]

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A couple of years ago, I walked across the Grand Canyon from rim to rim in 16 hours. We began on the South Rim at night and made our way across under a full moon, carrying only food and water and stopping only for a brief rest from time to time. It was an epic [...]

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It’s hot hot hot here today, up around the 114 mark. Time for a little digital painting…

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The top image was shot from inside the arch, 660 feet off the ground! The lower image was shot lying on the ground, looking up at four colleagues (and old friends!) – two from Canada, one from Wales and one from England. We just spent the past week there for the HeSCA conference – a [...]

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We arrive at the Horton Creek trailhead at dusk. The plan is to hike up the side of the Mogollon Rim toward the mouth of Horton Spring, finding a suitable place to camp along the way. Conor and three of his friends are with me and Zach, one of the boy’s fathers, joins us as [...]

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“It’s going to be below freezing tonight, the trails are muddy, you need to pack out all waste including toilet paper and human waste and it’s supposed to rain today.” The Park Ranger looked across at me as though that should be sufficient to send me away. No way! This trip has been in the [...]

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I arrived at Bryce Canyon National Park late in the day after negotiating through a wild winter storm in Flagstaff and sandstorms throughout northern Arizona. It was bitter cold and icy snow flurries pelted Big Blue as I entered Red Canyon, about thirty minutes outside the park and the first view of the region’s colorful [...]

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