Excellent! Thanks!

Is high clearance or 4WD required to go to Picketpost trailhead?

Headed there on Saturday - can't wait!

Thanks!

Howdy All! I'm planning on hiking the cave trail up to robbers roost and down west boulder saddle. Is this direction just as easy to navigate as coming up from west boulder saddle? I would rather go down west boulder saddle, and I would like to go up cave, but I can switch if it easier to get to Rob...

Will do, thanks! I need a new hiking shirt!

Hello All!!

Okay, who was wearing the HAZ shirt going up Echo Canyon this morning at 11am? I want to know who I saw!!

AND... I want a shirt, too!!! Where is the link to get one? Thanks!

We saw hardly any bees in/near the cave. I didn't see a hive there, but maybe I wasn't looking closely enough. Usually, you can hear a hive!! I guess all the bees were busy in those EXTREME wildflowers...!

Anyone been by the Wave Cave recently? I am planning on heading out there tomorrow, and some of my group are rather bee phobic... It would help to know if there is a hive there!

Thanks!!

The link I posted will get you to the national forest website, but what I was really looking for I found in another place by searching for the actual file name... here is what I was hoping to find when I clicked on the above link: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/33756991/Fact-Sheet The Tonto site used t...

Has anyone else noticed that the Forest Service Website is now flakey? I used to think it was easy to use, and there were maps to the trails, trailheads and campgrounds. Now I cannot seem to locate some of these maps any longer. I thought maybe they weren't available, but when I looked at the trip d...

Please sign this petition to help prevent the closure of our state parks: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-arizona-state-parks The petition will be submitted to Governor Brewer and the state legislators on February 1st with a plea to reconsider the closure of so many State Parks. Please have a ...

I didn't realize that The Lost Dutchman was targeted in the closures... I'm going to see if I can get to the Feb 1st meeting... :O http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/11/20100111arizona-park-closures.html Ariz. officials propose closing 13 state parks by Casey Newton - Jan. 11, 2010 06:16...

I was thinking of going in June, but now a friend who lived in Montana most of his life said August is the best time...??? :P I thought August was mosquito month, along with being busiest together with July?? Ug. We are driving, and I plan on making reservations as soon as I can get a rough idea of ...

Thanks, everyone! I love to hear ideas from anyone who has been there. I can research and read, but there is nothing like experience! I can't wait to make it out there!!

Hello, I am interested in any advice as to best time of year, routes, hikes, places to stay, etc. that anyone has to offer regarding Yellowstone national park. We are planning on going (with our two kids, I should mention, so sadly there will be no backpacking most likely, but we are planning to hik...

In response to djui5's reply: Someone kept blowing up the pay boxes, so they finally did away with them. That's what I heard anyway... That is hilarious. Thanks all for the information. Including the "rant"... >:D I normally stay away from such heavily populated trails, but now with Kiddo...

Is there a fee to park at the Peralta Trailhead? I thought there was, but in the HAZ directions section it says it is "now free"? I know it was free when I first moved here 10 years ago, and I know it turned into a fee area ... is it back to a free parking area? Or is it a fee area? Thanks...

How about starting next week? I suggest Wednesday, Feb 2 at 11:45am. The access to the trailhead is on the southwest side of "A" Mountain. The easiest way to locate it is that it is off the "overflow" parking section of the Tempe Mission Palms parking lot (when you turn into the ...

I am wondering if anyone works/goes to school around the ASU area, and wants to do a twice up and down "A" mountain jaunt during lunchtime. I figure it would be more fun with some company, and I would be less likely to scam out and be a slug. ;) The weather is such that I figure this jaunt...

Hello, Hello! This may seem like a strange question, but I can think of no better forum than HAZ to ask! Being that a majority of our backpacking experience has been in AZ, UT, and CA, I thought to ask what others that hike in the same general vincinity thought of New Zealand, if indeed anyone has b...