Tag: Critters
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The Things You Come Across
With a Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hike coming up fast, I look to hike every night as part of training. One of the things I’ve noticed was that the saguaro seem to have more blossoms than usual this year – which I find odd, as we have had a lot less rain than normal this spring…
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Sundays are for Saguaros (and apparently owls)
Let’s start with one of the coolest things I’ve seen hiking in Arizona. I’ve passed by this nest a hundred times and always wondered “what lives there”? Well, I found out. It’s an owl. A great horned owl, to be more precise. And the momma owl was busy nesting, peeking a bit with one eye…
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Places: Skull Mesa
Currently, I am training to do the Rim-to-Rim hike at the Grand Canyon in May. I felt pretty close to where I needed to be a few months ago, until I broke a toe and hiking was placed on hold. One of the best local places to simulate the hike out of the canyon is…
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Places: Desert Vista Trail, Phoenix Arizona
Phoenix is blessed to have many place to hike. I have a new favorite locally the Desert Vista Trail. Just north of the city, it offers a nice variety of mountain trials… and a desert trails with something to look at. You may even get to see a Coyote. And somebody circa the 80’s must…
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Summer Hikes in the Desert
Yep, it’s hot. Really hot sometimes. So what’s a guy to do when he wants to hike in the summer? He gets up at 4:30 in the morning and sets out. What started out as a personal goal to take 7 sunrise hikes in 7 days has now surpassed 20. It wasn’t for any particular…
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I love when the unusal happens!
Golfing today with one of my buddies and bull snake decided to crash the party on thr 12th hole. He didn’t care one bit we were there. This is a pressure putt….. But he managed to do more than that. While we finished the hole and were walking back to the carts, it thought it…
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Sharing the trail…
With the weather warming up, it is a great time to be sneaking in a quick hike after work before the sun goes down. But with the warm temperatures, the chance for an encounter with the Arizona critters goes up. This guy was particularly “hangry”. This is the first time I ever ran into one…
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By far the freakiest thing I’ve ever seen in Arizona.
Living in the desert in Arizona often allows you the chance to see things you cannot see anywhere else. You get used to seeing all kinds of things that are the stuff of nightmares for many folks. But by far the craziest critter I’ve ever seen was in my backyard. Behold, the female bark scorpion…