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Pioneering the Best Trails in the Southwest
Anyone who has ventured below the rim of Grand Canyon can likely recall the moment in which his or her "light" came on. I refer to that step in the journey when distractions, obsessions, hang-ups, and anxieties dissolve like mist before the altar of …
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As I munched on a Mexican-style burrito with an acquaintance from Germany, I couldn't help but notice the eclectic crowd riding out the heat in the modest cantina found in Supai Village. This inner canyon eatery is the anchor for a patchwork of …
Can. Lid. Can. Lid. Can. Shoe. Shoe? A chilly gust of wind rattled the nearby brush as I spied a decades-old boot peering out from a pile of rusted refuse. My patch of shade beneath a low-slung juniper on Horseshoe Mesa had apparently doubled as a …
"Hey, check it out," I implored my hiking partner Dan. "I've got a fifth of the earth's history between my fingers." Dan interrupted his cool-down in Hance Creek to find my hand placed on the Great Unconformity, the precise point where the nearly …
As an avid hiker, the occasional glance over a frosty Grand Canyon from a cozy office is akin to a hibernating bear raising a groggy eye to gauge spring's progress. After months of watching the snows come and go on the canyon's temples and …
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