In April I saw my first Gila Monster in the wild doing the Hackberry Springs loop in the Superstitions. Born and raised in AZ just had never run across one. Funny thing is it was about 100 yards from a Rattlesnake on the other side of the trail. I need to enter a triplog with pictures. Thanks for re...

I will admit I am not a domestic animal lover. Managing apartments through College cured me of any desire to have any kind of animal in my house. While there are some very concientious dog owners out there. The ones that don't control or clean up after their dogs make the rest of us really hate dogs...

I guess he can't get over that incident. It occurred in March of 2008. We learned all about it when we camped there in April, 2008. The guy is a little different... The mountain lions are new though.

We just completed this trip last weekend. My boys carried 4 liters of water and large gatorade. I carried 7 liters and a gatorade. Schultz Tanks were full but people were letting their dogs play in them. Even with a filter it didn't look very desirable. I like running water to filter myself. We camp...