@RedRoxx44 Contrary to popular belief, Lake Powell was not the result of negotiations over the controversial damming of the Green River within Dinosaur National Monument at Echo Park; the Echo Park Dam proposal was abandoned due to nationwide citizen pressure on Congress to do so https://www.usbr.g...

The drought is often said to have persisted for decades now, and we may in fact be in a "megadrought". But regardless, after a couple of inches of rain it only took two weeks to change everything. Praise be to Cthulhu!

I always thought it was just a developer ploy that ends with "See!? A tram isn't so bad after all!"

@friendofThundergod They posted the following publicly on their facebooks. The wash out on Road 487, below Workman Creek Falls, has caused erosion around the bridge area. The erosion has passed some of the road barriers, causing a safety concern, the engineering staff have tried several fixes to th...

NWS Phx published a review of last month's anomalous rain event across the state. It's 100% nerdy stuff that probably only Jim will be interested in. But just in case there's a silent lurker out there who also appreciates such things, here's the link: https://www.weather.gov/psr/StormReportfor2126Ju...

https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/wh ... rs-hiking/
Bears are lazy and prefer easy flat walks on trails.

@azbackpackr
I bet there's a peer-reviewed meta analysis that fully explains misinterpretations of internet posts and the conflicts that occur as a result.

@RedRoxx44
Speaking of Tonto ... add the narrows to that list of locals creating issues that the FS can't (or won't) deal with.

I can't really tell by looking at the updated closure order, but it looks like Picketpost might be open. Picketpost was not restricted even under the former closure order (https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd923425.pdf) which only covered area east of the 177. The updated closure m...

Camelback is 12 miles northeast of Phoenix. And to think AOL is actually still a thing!

@friendofThundergod

FWIW, though this may have escaped some here, it is possible to be BOTH sympathetic to first responders injured in the line of duty AND ALSO support fact-based policies that will actually help reduce danger and limit potential injury to these valued community servants in the future. As opposed to th...

We have no rationale for doing what we did but at least we're doing something!

Posted No Trespassing. https://hikearizona.com/t2020/03/08/O_2 ... 03.jpg?v=0

@DixieFlyer
How many acre-feet is that?
If it all got collected in Lake Mead, how many feet would the lake level rise?

@DmN The high in Phoenix was 81°F today. This follows highs of 83°F the past two days. For the first time in recorded history (since 1896), Phoenix has had three consecutive days in July with highs in the low 80s I'm not sure what the definition of "low 80s" is. There are a couple of folks on here ...

azbackpackr wrote:Surely we have no one on the website who would do such a thing!

Sorry, while I enjoy the maths, I'm busy with other things this morning.

@friendofThundergod
They better have saved the tower. Their published objectives were basically "we're going to protect the tower and otherwise let it burn freely"

I don't have a photographic memory of weather events over the years, but I can't recall even a winter storm that provided such widespread precipitation across the entire state over such a long duration. From the White Mtns to Flag, even Kingman, down through the valley, Tucson, southeast Arizona, an...

@Pivo
The federal government doesn't mess around. Not Wyoming jurisdiction, laws or prosecution.