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Trails and Cocktales: Coronado National Memorial Joe’s Canyon Trail & the PalomaTrails and Cocktales:
It’s Cinco de Mayo and what better time to take a hike and indulge in a fabulous Tequila cocktail! No, it’s not a Margarita. While a properly concocted Margarita is a great drink, there is another drink south of the border that is more popular, and really, more...
Tips For Hiking Grand Canyon Rim to Rim in a Day
Grand Canyon is the hiker’s paradise, well, the hiker that is looking for a challenge. Any trail at the canyon that takes you below the rim is at least moderately strenuous in difficulty and the difficulty only rises as the temperatures get warmer. But with over 300...
9 Tips to Finding the Perfect Campsite
What is a perfect campsite? This is a difficult question to answer since you can’t always just find a flat piece of ground and take that as your space. Use area restrictions, terrain, water sources, and crowds, just to name a few, play a big part in selecting THE...
What To Know When Hiking With Your Dog
If you love the outdoors and love dogs, then you probably like to take them, well, outdoors. And, while the front country is very dog friendly, the backcountry adds many challenges for man’s and woman’s best friend. The majority of our favorite places to hike and...
7 Things to Know Before Hiking Paria Canyon
In 1984, Congress created the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness to protect the area’s outstanding scenery, desert wildlife and colorful history. These 112,500 acres of fantabulous on the northern border of Arizona and into Utah beckons adventurers who yearn for...
5 Tips for Backpacking Alone
OK, so you’re looking to travel into the backcountry on your own or as a solo hiker. Either you have no friends or family and you are truly alone in this world, or the thought of being with your friends and family in the backcountry causes an uncontrollable twitch in...
Minimize Muscle Soreness on Your Hikes
The title says it all! This article is about minimizing muscle soreness when you hike – key word, MINIMIZE. So don’t go following the advice of this article and whine that your muscles were sore yet you did everything I said. Minimize is not the same as eliminate. And...
How to Stay Somewhat Clean on Your Backpacking Trip
One of the most frequently asked questions we get for our backpacking trips is “Are there showers?” Well, you are in the big, bad, outdoors so, no. However, that should not keep you from experiencing life in the outdoors – which is so worth foregoing the shower. Here...
9 Essentials for Desert Hiking
While hiking is a fun way to get unplugged and a great workout, it is an activity that can lead to to very remote places with a big delay in rescue in the event things just don’t go as planned. Add the intense and unforgiving desert environment to the mix when you are...
Top 6 Canyons to Hike in Arizona that are NOT Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon is an amazing place, don’t get us wrong. However, it is not the only canyon in Arizona. The state has 32 canyons and gorges, each of which holds their own unique qualities and amazingness (pretty sure that’s not a real word). The canyons highlighted here...
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