Hiking

For Memorial Day Weekend, we went for a trip to Banff, Alberta, Canada. We tried to kayak Lake Louise, but it was frozen. We did go whitewater rafting and do several hikes around Banff.

This is a video of our Grand Canyon four day trip that was 38 miles of off-trail hiking, rock-hopping and canyoneering. It also included three miles of packrafting and 13,800 feet of elevation [...]

The City of Scottsdale announced six new trails to be built in the North Eastern part of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. These six new trails will be built on existing trails and/or new ones will [...]

Bless you Adidas for buying Five Ten. I was worried that when Adidas bought Five Ten they  would discontinue making shoes that would work in wet canyons. Not only did they continue, they made an [...]

If you haven’t made it out to Echo Canyon trail yet here is a video that shows some of the improvements of the trail.

Camelback Mountain’s popular (and challenging) trail is set to reopen next week. Phoenix officials announced Wednesday that Echo Canyon and Summit Trail will reopen to hikers on Jan. 15 at [...]

EpicTV Climbing Daily, Ep. 137 The national parks of America are due to close today, due to the breakdown of negotiations in the US House Of Representatives. Public services have been shut down, [...]

The Echo Canyon trailhead on Camelback Mountain is set to reopen November 30, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, officials say. The popular trail closed in January for major renovations, to the [...]

Brown’s Ranch Trailhead opened Monday, June 10, in Scottsdale’s 27,800-acre McDowell Sonoran Preserve. The roller-coaster terrain and banked corners north of Dynamite Road are premium [...]

Rescue crews airlifted an injured canyoneer out of Parker Creek east of the Valley Thursday morning. The 34-year-old man, who has not yet been identified by authorities, estimated he fell 60-70 [...]

The Echo Canyon trail on Camelback Mountain closes today for renovations add more spaces to the parking lot and reconstruction to severely eroded parts of the trail. It will remain closed for the [...]

Jan. 2013 update: U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ, CD-1) is picking up where Rep. Gosar left off by working to privatize Oak Flat, Arizona for the foreign-owned Resolution Copper. The [...]

Please send comments to your Senator As the 112th Congress winds down, Senators Kyl and McCain are seeking to push through a bill to trade away some of our valuable public lands. We need your [...]

Developers of a massive copper mine near Superior are putting the project on hold and laying off hundreds of workers after becoming frustrated by years of political wrangling over a land swap. [...]

by Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Google and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a [...]

Ron Dungan – Oct. 8, 2012 05:16 PM | The Arizona Republic Matthias Kawski walked the Canyon’s edge, staring into the void. He scanned the hillsides and drop-offs and retraced his [...]