As the weather across the country warms up, outdoor activities will become more attractive to people looking to find ways to get moving.
By now, I have traipsed through enough Sedona trails to know this sad home truth: the closer you run or hike to town, the less pleasant the ex…
In 2014, after a year of falling in love with trail running, I said to my partner, “You know where I want to live? Flagstaff, Arizona.” We did…
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Fishing was one of the few sports where participation seemed to pick up when everything else went on pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Thrice now I have come to the Boynton Canyon Trail and, still, I have yet to meet Flute Man, yet to hear his ethereal, high-octave trills atop…
There I was, almost finished delicately and deliberately making my way down the steep side path from the Fay Canyon arch in Sedona, each step …
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Ambling along Priest Draw, just starting out with my spirited dogs in tow, I spied up ahead on the trail a guy who looked as if he had a queen…
When the National Park Service announced it would waive entrance fees at many of its parks during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic this…
Camping, like so many activities outdoors during the stress of the pandemic, has new followers. Don't let winter cool the enthusiasm.
That long drive down the mountain from Flagstaff to Phoenix, roughly 145 miles and a 30-degree temperature change, can be a real slog. What’s …
As 2020 neared a close, the three-month-long Iowa Exit 182 Virtual Fitness Challenge I helped organize was in its waning days. With the corona…
Like you, I had seen the forecast. Like yours, my weather app showed snowflake icons starting Tuesday and lasting pretty much all week. But la…
With air travel down, many Americans are hitting the roads during COVID-19. Assuming local regulations allow for it, exploring the outdoors ca…
It would be the last hike of the season, Jessica Newton had excitedly posted on her social media platforms.
Here’s an existential conundrum that Stephen Ashworth, a thru-hiking veteran who moseyed on through Flagstaff last Friday on his months-long R…
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So many forest roads are out there to explore by foot. So many to get turned around on, too, the woods having more passageways than an M.C. Es…
Come winter, many lakes and rivers can start to freeze over, presenting a beautiful, but potentially deadly situation. Here's what you need to…
Snow fell here Monday, at last. Good, we need it. We’ve been parched, withered, absolutely drought-saturated. At this point, we would've even …
I love where I live. I can be running on a trail in less than five minutes (well, 10 minutes on a slower day). When we first moved to this hou…
Smug self-satisfaction is not a quality I’m particularly proud of possessing, so I try to tamp it down. This time, though, I just couldn’t hel…
As the mercury rose late morning last Wednesday on an unseasonably mild December day, so, too, did the traffic on Mark Sather Trail, a popular…
We take requests here, occasionally. A while ago, we received this missive from avid hiker (and reader) Pat Stein, who wanted to know what the…
