AZT Blog

May 6, 2019

The Grand Finale

A time of new connections, great natural wonders and human kindness. A bittersweet end to our journey across Arizona, and what a long strange trip it's been....
April 20, 2019

Elk Country

We passed the 500 mile mark, climbing the Mogollon rim onto the Colorado plateau. Desert has given way to pines, deer to elk. Welcome to northern Arizona...
April 11, 2019

Meandering Mazatals

Riding the high divide through the central highlands and Mazatal mountains. From dry desert to Pine...
March 30, 2019

The Dry & Beautiful

The drier it gets, the more flowers we see. Whole hillsides have begun to turn yellow, with streaks of purple lupine running down the slopes...
March 22, 2019

The Rincon-Catalina Complex

It is strange how you can be so familiar with a place, but with the addition of ample rain and snow melt, it becomes nearly unrecognizable.
March 12, 2019

Homeward Bound – The Santa Rita Mountains

After a great sleep, multiple breakfast burritos, and lots of dog lovin’, we said our goodbyes and hit the trail by 11:00. Our stay in Patagonia […]
March 6, 2019

Southern Grasslands

After winding down dirt forest roads for what seemed an eternity, we at last arrived at Montezuma Pass -the closest point to the southern terminus of […]
February 10, 2019

The Choir of Dehydrators…. A New Beginning and a Second Attempt

For my 18th birthday, I had ambitions of hiking the Arizona trail. When I started looking into the details of resupplying, water caches, dry stretches etc… […]

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