Category: Arizona
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Alligator Alcatraz
Leftist environmentalists are bringing suit to block the construction of a detention center for illegal aliens in the heart of the Everglades. This should interest Sarasota resident and fellow philosopher Elliott Ruffin Crozat who paid me a visit over the last three days. You can imagine the 'orgy' of philosophizing that took place, both peripatetically…
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Richard Peck, Seeker of Lost Gold
Substack latest.
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Western Superstitions: Hieroglyphic Canyon Hike out of Cloudview Trailhead
MavPhil commenter Trudy Vandermolen and her husband Ken from Michigan paid me a visit yesterday. It's becoming an annual thing. Next year: either the Garden Valley Loop out of the First Water Trailhead or Fremont Saddle out of Peralta. Here are a couple of shots of me and Trudy from the hike I took them…
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Gunfire Tonight!
One of the exciting things about living out here in the Arizona Territory is that all too many local hombres love to greet the the New Year with a hail of gunfire aimed heavenward. It adds a nice Middle Eastern touch to the Copper State. Part of the problem is the sad state of science…
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Sunset Crater
Better the Visitor's Center than Flagstaff!
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On the Water Front
It is still deliciously cool, mornings, this Sonoran spring in the Zone, but the summer will soon be upon us. And so my regimen changes. I leave for my desert mountain bike ride earlier and earlier. This morning I was out from 5:11 to 6:37. First light is now around 5:00. The idea is to…
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To Those Fleeing California
DO NOT come to Arizona! It's just too damned hot here for you snowflakes. And on top of that everybody is packing heat. That's why you don't hear any honking on the highways and byways. "An armed society is a polite society." We are racist to the core in this rattlesnake-infested inferno which is also…
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Arizona Sunset, New Year’s Eve, 2022
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Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Kari Lake for Arizona Governorship
Here
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Mark Granza Interviews Blake Masters: ‘Woke’ Capitalism and Kyle Rittenhouse
(Related: my Substack article, The Trial of Kyle.) Here is the interview. A couple of excerpts: Mark Granza: A decade ago most people would have considered ‘Woke Capitalism’ a contradiction, and probably laughed at the idea. Today, nobody questions its existence. Do you think there are there inherent characteristics within Capitalism that transform it into…
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Superstition Wilderness: Garden Valley Loop out of First Water Trailhead
The boys were a little anxious but acquitted themselves well on this five and a half mile loop through characteristically rugged Superstition terrain except for the easy walk through Garden Valley itself. The guide books say it takes four and a half hours. It took the old men a bit longer. We left at 6:36…
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Easter Monday Local Ramble
Out the front door, plenty of elevation gain and loss. Hike much, stay sane. The boys acquitted themselves well. Photo credit: Dennis M.
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Sonoran Spring
Photo credit: Wifey
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Treasure Loop, Western Superstitions, 5 April 2022
Lost Dutchman State Park with the Goldfield Mountains to the West behind me. Double left-click for close-up. Photo credit: Dennis Murray.
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All’s Well that Ends Well
The hike was almost over. The light was failing as we gingerly negotiated the last steps of the treacherous downgrade of Heart Attack Hill on the Bluff Spring Trail in the Superstition Mountains. Suddenly my hiking partner let out a yell and jumped back at the unmistakable sound of a diamond back rattlesnake (crotalus atrox). …