Water Hikes

Video of the AHOTE: Arizona Hiking and Off-Trail Explorers Canyon Crawl 2015.

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 [...]

Normally these packs take 4-6 weeks to get in from Spain (even longer if they need to be custom made green ones, they get stuck in customs or a hurricane hits the coast of New York… yes all [...]

Canyon Crawl, February 2014. It was supposed to be a weekend of canyoneering several canyons with a bunch of people. However, Mother Nature had other plans. It poured Friday night through [...]

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 [...]

We went up to Zion National Park for the fourth of July, four day weekend. We got drawn in the last minute lottery for Mystery Canyon. The conditions were very dry. Zion had not had any monsoon [...]

We woke up at 1AM. We were at the trailhead around 3AM. The canyon approach was nine miles – mostly in the dark. First rappel at 6:30AM. First of five narrows by 8:30AM. There were at least [...]

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area may be know worldwide for its amazing climbing, but it also has some pretty killer canyons. We went up Memorial Weekend and went through two canyons. [...]

Purpose: For rigging releaseable single line rappel anchors.

The Canyon Jug is—by far—the best waterproof container you can get for canyoneering through swimmers. If you are headed out to drop into a fun, non-technical canyon like Wet Beaver Creek or a [...]

With the recent snow fall in the Mazatzal Mountains our crew headed out to descend Rock Creek. Rock Creek is probably the best canyon in the Mazatzals when the water is raging. And it was. [...]

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 [...]

With all the snow that fell in the mountains around Phoenix (Yes, it does snow here occasionally) We wanted to get out into the Mazatzal Mountains and do a little rappelling.  

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 [...]