Travel

The second day of my 2026 President's Day weekend trip to Phoenix. I hiked Mount Picketpost, a short but intensive hike to the southeast of the city.

The first day of my 2026 President's Day weekend trip to Phoenix. I hiked Battleship Mountain, an outstanding rock formation in the Superstition Wilderness that featured a few exciting scrambling moves along the way.

For the long weekend around President's Day 2026, I took a trip to Phoenix, Arizona. This brief post is about some of the scenery visible from my flight there, the snow-covered landscapes of the US East Coast.

A post about a day trip that I took to Atlanta early February, the flights back and forth and some of the museums that I visited.

I spent a weekend in Los Angeles in early 2026. This post covers the flights there and back, along with a museum visit and a hike I enjoyed over the course of the weekend.

A post about my hike to Mt Jackson and Mt Webster in December 2025.

The fifth day of my 2025 Thanksgiving Trip to Tucson brought me to Mt. Wrightson, a prominent peak rising to the south of the city. Less technically demanding than the traverses of the Santa Catalina Mountains — such as Mt. Kimball, which I had tackled just two days prior — it nonetheless promised sweeping, rewarding views, and I was eager to see what it had to offer.

The third day of my 2025 Thanksgiving Trip to Tucson. I climbed Mount Kimball in the Santa Catalina Mountains, traversing Finger Rock Canyon and Pima Canyon in what turned out to be a long and exhilarating day hike.

The second day of my 2025 Thanksgiving Trip to Tucson. I drove from Willcox back to Tucson this day, took a tour of Kartchner Caverns in the morning before hiking Tanque Verde Ridge in the afternoon.

The first day of my 2025 Thanksgiving Trip to Tucson, I found myself wandering through the enchanting labyrinth of hoodoos at Chiricahua National Monument, where nature has sculpted the stone into an intricate forest of fantastical forms.