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We just received a new shipment of Rodcle packs.

Normally, I am not one to rave about a service, business or person, but in this case I feel compelled to share my story.  I have been working with a personal trainer for about six weeks to find [...]

Photos from our trip to Colorado. These are from the Via Ferrata in Telluride.

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.

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 [...]

The following mnemonic sentence provides an easy way to remember the primary rock layers in the Grand Canyon: Know: Kaibab Limestone The: Toroweap Formation Canyon’s: Coconino Sandstone [...]

What can you do with that empty water bottle? You know that they take up a large percent of trash thrown away each year. And that there are floating islands of plastic in the ocean. So here is [...]

Description: The Katadyn Vario Dual Technology Water Filter combines the two best technologies – ceramic and pleated microfiltration. It is designed so that a simple turn engages a ceramic [...]

For Valentines Day weekend a bunch of us took a float trip down the Colorado River. We started at the base of Hoover Dam and ended up at Willow Beach. We encounter a could of technical canyons [...]

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, [...]

Search and rescue teams were called to two accidents in three days recently in Birch Hollow Slot Canyon, just outside of Zion National Park in Kane County. Members of the team included officials [...]

What is the Rally? The Mongol Rally is an annual “race” that releases some 300 miniature vehicles into the streets of London, hell bent on getting to Ulaanbaatar. There is no route. And really, [...]

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 [...]