By Rob Samuelsen Historically, the Grand River originated from the continental divide in Colorado and flowed southwesterly across the Colorado Plateau to the confluence of the Green River...
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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Natural Bridges National Monument
By Robert Samuelsen In the amazing canyon country of southern Utah, there are naturally formed spans of rock – arches and bridges in geological parlance. In Arches National Park, there are...
Flooding in the Desert?
By Rob Hallberg I grew up in the DC area and it often surprises my friends when I reveal that Tucson has flooding problems. Floods in the Desert? They just don’t understand. “Desert” refers...
Best Southern Arizona Back Roads
Here you will find some of our recommended Southern Arizona back roads with links to more information. But first, there are a few things you might consider. Southern Arizona back roads are...
AZ Adventures Outdoors: Elephant Hill
By Rob Samuelsen Many years ago my father decided to rent a Jeep in Moab, Utah to explore parts of Canyonlands National Park. At the rental desk, the attendant told my father that he was...
AZ Adventures Outdoors: Sabino Canyon Crawler
By Rob Samuelsen For thousands of years, people have flocked to Sabino Canyon to use and enjoy the water because water is the lifeblood of the desert. Sabino Creek was a perennial stream...
Javalina Invasion
By Robert Samuelsen They won’t win a beauty contest, nor would they be considered a charismatic critter, but the collared peccary is commonly seen and is very much part of the arid...
Arizona Adventures Outdoors: Eastward of Colossal Cave...
By Robert Samuelsen This may be a question that doesn’t need to be asked but it struck me as curious if not relevant. Somewhere between the perennial stream in the Sonoita valley and the...
AZ Adventures Outdoors: The Story of Mortars
By Rob Samuelsen Since the early day of mankind, humans have used stone tools to prepare food. In fact, scientists have discovered grinding stones in all parts of the world going back more...
AZ Adventures Outdoors: Bites, pokes, and scrapes
By Robert Samuelsen The harshness of the Sonoran Desert is no better demonstrated than through the cuts, pokes, scrapes and bites by desert rocks, flora, and fauna. It seems like every time...