May 6th, 2013
I am writting this entry to address a commonly sighted concern that our guests have. I have a smartphone, facebook, twitter and linked-in accounts, a reader and a tablet, a laptop and a desktop, I use skype and Facetime, am a blogger, play on-line games, am addicted to youtube, and have 3 different email accounts - I like technology as much as the next guy. But as soon as I step foot into the backcountry,
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April 29th, 2013
A Child of the Navajo Nation, c. 1950
Becasue she is scared and she is lonelier
Thank she has ever benn,
Who has never in her six years been loenly before,
Because she is so unaware of what loneliness can be
That she is soley directed at what she cannot name,
Directed perfectly in her bone-white fear,
She is the deer mouse who has seen the
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April 4th, 2013
If you are a regular reader of the Just Roughin' It blog, this will seem familiar, (click here to read the first installment - Tipping Etiquette for Tour Guides ) we just feel it necessary to update everyone on gratuity, especially as adventure travel is becoming more and more popular. It also
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March 28th, 2013
The beauty of the canyon speaks for itself, and we, and our guides, can (and do) talk for hours about the things you will see and experience while on the trail with us, but in the end don't you want to hear it from someone just like you? We thought so. This is the first entry in a new segment called "My Grand Canyon Hike." I wanted to name this segment "From the Horses Mouth" but...I got overruled.
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March 19th, 2013
Spring is here (and it has been for at least a month now in Phoenix) and with it come the wildflowers and the butterflies. Arizona is a seasonal home to over 250 species of butterfly and wild all the wildflowers are blooming in the Sonoran Desert, Spring is a great time to see them. Swallowtails, Whites, Sulfers, Blues, Hairstreaks, Metalmarks, Brushfoots, Skippers and Snouts are of the most
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March 6th, 2013
A while back I wrote a nice little blog about bears' responce to a very feminine concern. This is not that, this one is for you fellas. In case you missed it however, read all about how bears actively search out and eat menstruating women (just kidding). A recent issue of Backpacker
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February 25th, 2013
Today, February 26th, Grand Canyon National Park will celebrate the anniversary of its designation as a national park 94 years to the day after An Act to Establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona was signed into law.
"Protection of this spectacular landscape actually started long before Grand Canyon became a national park," said Grand Canyon Superintendent Dave Uberuaga.
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February 21st, 2013
A rare event occurred in Phoenix, Arizona yesterday when Mother Nature dropped the white stuff (snow, not "snow") on many parts of the Valley of the Sun. Actually, much of what was thought to be snow was actually what the weather experts call graupel as reported by
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February 18th, 2013
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something mare than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the workd as it was in the beginning, not just after we get through with it." - Lyndon B. Johnson upon signing the Wilderness Act of 1964
"There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no
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February 14th, 2013
It's Valentine's Day and while we are showering our loved ones (and ourselves) with chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate, take a different route and do something healthy for your body and mind and get outside for a few days and backpack! While it is cold in most of the Western Hemisphere, there are plenty of places in the Southwestern US and south of the border perfect to get out.
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