Was up in Pima Canyon to the first dam yesterday morning. Some crapweasel decided that it would be a good idea to spraypaint a white arrow on a big piece of gneiss in the wash at the dam. This rock also has half a dozen Hohokam grinding holes in it. I am struggling with the mentality behind this. Wh...

Just go talk to someone at the ranger district and bring along your interagency pass. I am not inclined to do that until I understand why the usfs believes that what it is doing in Sabino Canyon is consistent with Adams. I understand the Sabino Canyon is a HIRA (tho 7 falls is not in it), but I do ...

So, I have an annual federal, all agency pass that I will throw on my dash when I go to Sabino Canyon. On Saturday, as I was parking, it must have slipped into a crack between the dash and the windshield, so it wasn't visible. Anyway, after a hike to seven falls, I found a "Notice of Required F...

I need to invest in a chile roaster. I am a huge fan of NM green chiles, and I will typically roast them on my gas grill, but I find that it takes a little too long, and the result is chiles that have a lot of carmelized brown sections. These taste good, but they add a sweetness to my green chile po...

Yeah, that's it.

Gross.

I was up on the Esperero trail in the Catalinas today and I came across this bug crawling really slowly across the snow on the trail. It was between 1.5 and 2 inches long, and it looked like a giant ant or a giant termite, or maybe like a wingless wasp. It's abdomen had yellow and black stripes. Any...