BAJA DIVIDE 3: Side trip to Picacho del Diablo

Pedaling my bicycle for five weeks and fourteen hundred kilometers, up hills, across deserts, through sand, over rocks, and on … More

El Camino del Diablo

Centuries ago, El Camino del Diablo was a network of footpaths that led to water, sacred places, villages, and hunting … More

Falling in love with a mountain, for me, is a lot like love at first sight, and beyond that, it … More

I just started this new blog site as a way to keep my adventure blogs more separate from my art … More

After our section on the Hayduke we headed to New Mexico to climb a few more NM county highpoints; Beautiful … More

The Hayduke is an ~800 mile route across Utah, from Moab to Zion. It goes through several national parks and … More

It has been nearly six years since we came to this place. It is difficult to trace the steps that … More

I pull on the door. It does not open. It’s a glass door not too different from the ones on … More

Yesterday as we were sitting on our fourth train, after too many buses to remember, and the second day of … More

I’m lying in a hotel bed in Foppolo listening to the sound of cow bells outside the veranda window. My … More

It’s always difficult for me to write the final blogpost for a thru-hike. There always seems to be a big … More

I’ve come to realize that I’ve had a lot of expectations about the Arizona Trail, most especially what kind of … More

We’re in a hotel in Payson, taking a zero day (zero hiking miles). It’s 3:30 in the afternoon and I’ve … More

When the lizard rises my natural instinct is to screech… After leaving Oracle, we made it a few miles past … More

‘Musings after a zero day in town.’ We left the Oracle Inn restaurant after dark and headed back to the … More