Fear not the Lion but you had better have a health level of respect for any large predator. Big cats will stalk any animal that the cat feels is a potential meal. The hunting guide who was chased up onto the hood of his pickup at dusk. Was at a watering hole and was in the right spot at the right ti...

Interesting factoid http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cougar.htm Jake and I ran across a Cougar / Mountain Lion feeding about 3 weeks ago on the north side of Graint Mountian. We where just cresting a small ridge when Jake the lab started acting nervous. I pulled out the binoculiars and was really lucky t...

I have never hiked in sandals. But I can only amagin it would be more comfortable than with out??????????? As a kid growing up on the beach you would not be caught dead w/ the socks and sandal (flip flop) comb. White socks w/ shorts but ya gotta push them down. Pulled up socks look to touristy to me...

So it just might be that not all NRA gun totten malitia looking types are no more strange than the next person you meet on the trail. After all strange like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Imagine if you would how strange you or I might look to some passer by at any given time in our lives. I ...

Last spring I was hiking in the Cerbert mountians west of Kingman. While exploring a canyon we found a nice spring flowing quite a bit of water. We noticed the bottom of the pool, there was a bunch of blue crawdads. I had never seen a blue crawdad before!!! All it took to catch the blue boys was to ...

PrescottLover, I live in Prescott and have not seen a scorpion yet. But I here they are about. Snakes well they are around. But like it has been mentioned, rattle snakes are'nt agressive. And they warn you when you get to close. You and your wife will love living in Prescott. It's tons cooler than t...

I totaly agree with Mat.
Part of the adventure is dealing with some amount of unkown and being able to navigate around these hardships no matter how large or small they turn out to be.

To me thats what makes the time I spend in the wilderness so special.