By Robert Samuelsen There are hundreds of non-descript sandy arroyos scattered across southern Arizona. Many of them have no names, and the ones that do are typically called “a wash.”...
Category - AZ Adventures Outdoors
Lost Mines, Lost Jeep?
Was I lost? It depends if lost means you don’t know where you are or if you don’t know how to get where you want to be? I was a...
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AZ Adventures Outdoors for Nov. 2022
Mastodons! Imagine a world when giant sloths, saber-toothed tigers, vampire bats, horses, camels, tapirs, and pachyderms roamed...
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Nature Sounds
By Robert Samuelsen ‘If a tree falls in the forest, does it make sound?’, is the age-old riddle of challenge. Some years ago in...
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Guns but no Roses
By Robert Samuelsen Pale and shaking, he stood there holding the “stop” sign at the beginning of the road construction site on...
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Backcountry First Aid
By Robert Samuelsen Besides blisters, there are so many things that can happen in the outdoors that require some degree of medical assistance. In some cases, it’s best to seek professional...
Invisible Lines
By Robert Samuelsen The southeastern corner of Pima County is the dividing line of four different ecosystems – the Rockies, the Sierra Madres, the Sonoran Desert, and the Chihuahuan Desert...
El Camino del Diablo
By Robert Samuelsen The desert is binary, survive or perish, depending on one critical factor – the presence of water! If you have it, you survive, if you don’t, you perish. For centuries...
Schnebly Hill
By Rob Samuelsen Before Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon was settled by homesteaders because of its abundant water and mild climate. Although the impressive red rock was noted, tourism had little...
Verde River Railway
By Robert Samuelsen Time and travel have a unique relationship. Before the airplane, trains were the main mode of long-distance transportation – roomy, luxurious, and fast compared to a...
Sedona’s Vortex of Bliss
By Robert Samuelsen It’s hard to think about Arizona’s beautiful Town of Sedona without thinking about shopping, resorts, and hiking. Nestled on the edge of the Mogollon Rim, it’s red rocks...
Skunk Encounter
By Rob Samuelsen The noise woke me up in the middle of a dark summer night – the scratching and shuffling noise right underneath my cot. I was sleeping in an old style two-person wall tent...
AZ Adventures Outdoors: White Sands
By Robert Samuelsen Nestled in the Tularosa valley in central New Mexico is the largest gypsum dunefield in the world! White Sands National Park includes 275 square miles of gypsum granules...
Communing with Nature
By Robert Samuelsen On one of my exploratory Jeep adventures, I was seeking a way to go from Benson to Vail without using the freeway. On the maps, it showed public lands and a dirt road so...