2026 Trips To Date
Sedona
22 miles of hiking • 4500' elevation gain •
Trip to the Arizona desert.
Day 1- visited Perry Mesa in the Agua Fria National Monument. This plateau has 7 or 8 pueblo ruins and many petroglyphs. I visited Pueblo La Plata, then ventured onto rugged roads toward Baby Canyon. Maybe I took the wrong road, because my rental SUV could not handle it. So I stopped and just headed down a side canyon and found some petroglyphs and a double metate!
Day 2- Cragging in Sedona- did several routes on Fun Ship, getting acquainted with the sandstone.
Day 3 we climbed Morning Glory Spire- what a thrill!
Day 4- Loy Butte hike/scramble. Probably the coolest thing we did. Loved the slots and ledges, and visited some really cool cliff ruins.
Day 5- Courthouse Butte this was a prickly scramble with a bit of climbing up a huge butte. It was hot, I bonked for a little while. Very cool location though.
Day 6 Crane petroglyph site and Wet Beaver Creek. We visited the stewarded site, then hiked up the creek. It's more fun to stumble upon the ancient rock art in the wild.
April 1, 2026
March 28, 2026
Lower Greenleaf
5 miles of hiking • 750' elevation gain •
Explored some of the new trails being built in the area. Lower Greenleaf Falls has had some big washouts since the last time I visited, including taking out part of a new trail.
March 27, 2026
Mack's Canyon
12.5 miles of hiking • 1750' elevation gain • 1 night
This was supposed to be a ski trip to the Tilly Jane Cabin. But there was thin cover and rain predicted, so we pivoted to the Deschutes! It's so beautiful here.
March 20 – March 21, 2026
Broughton
4 miles of hiking • 500' elevation gain •
Goofing around at Broughton Bluff. Walked the " Phone Home Boulders" Trail, and examined some of the crags.
March 19, 2026
January 23, 2026
MSH
8 miles of hiking • 3000' elevation gain •
Beautiful sunny day. So warm. Lower mountain did not refreeze overnight. We forgot snowshoes. I thought there would be a good bootpack- nope. It was total mashed potatoes, posthole city, exhausting. Very thin coverage on the Worm flows, so we were able to scramble along the rock spine for a bit, but that was slow too. Then I tweaked my knee and became very worried about further injury, so we turned around. Stressful climbing down, but was such a pleasant view! Lesson learned.
January 15, 2026
Cedar Falls
6 miles of hiking • 1250' elevation gain •
It was a rainy day so we did a short hike from Bonneville Hot Springs to the cedar Falls overlook. Since the reopening of the Dick Thomas trail, the whole area has been resigned and well maintained. Look forward to going back and revisiting the trail system that has been hard to access for several years. Soaked at the hot springs afterward ( 25$ for 2 hours).
January 8, 2026
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