telepathic stuntman

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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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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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 returned from a terrific trip to Aravaipa Canyon (trip report to come). It was an incredibly scenic place, but teeming with rattlesnake! I was less than a foot away from stepping on this one – I noticed some movement on the ground as he was cocking his head back for a strike – that [...]

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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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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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Our latest adventure took us to Bell Canyon, just south of Sedona. The plan was to mountain bike the White Mesa Trail as far as we could go, stash the bikes in the brush and then travel on foot along Beaver Creek until we find a good spot to camp for the night. Riding a [...]

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My goal this weekend was to locate and document a wall of petroglyphs I had stumbled upon a couple years ago near Cherry Creek. My son and a couple of his friends loaded up Big Blue and we headed off toward Globe, Arizona. After about an hour of driving on a lumpy dirt road and [...]

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The latest public sculpture being erected in Phoenix, just a few blocks from my office. It will be 100 feet high and 100 feet wide and cost $2.4 million dollars. This giant floating net was imagined by artist Janet Echelman.

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On the day after Thanksgiving, Conor and I backpacked down into La Barge Canyon in the Superstition Wilderness, about an hour and a half east of Phoenix. The trail began at Canyon Lake under a sky that threatened to storm at any moment. The first hour was all uphill, leaving the panoramic view of the [...]

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We spent three days hiking down to Tonto Creek through the Hellsgate Wilderness and man it was brutal! About fourteen miles roundtrip, but a lot of climbing and descending – about 4000 feet of elevation gain. The first day we hiked about six hours to the creek. Storms threatened and surrounded us for the entire [...]

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Taken by Roger, I just ran it through a filter in photoshop to give it a bit more punch.

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One of my all time favorite shots, and a worthy first photo of the new blog!

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