Sea Otters are stealing surfboards. Again.

Welp, just light rain off and on last day or so here. Forecast Sun/Mon for an area of interest near the border 3.5 inches. I'm planning on sneaking in later today to car camp high since there will be some suspect washes I want to avoid if the forecast comes true.

Humid as all heck with the yard work. Will ready the Jeep just in case. I know where there are some good waterfalls and pools in the southland; if the roads aren't flooded out. Planned on a backpacking trip next week to New Mexico but with rain looking at the Galiuros on the southern end since water...

@hikeaz Thread degradation alert! I can vouch for the road issues. On one of the first trips in the area after heavy rains slid the Toyota into a bar ditch and was unable to get out even with the winch due to poor anchors ( a decrepit fence post). Walked to a not too far away ranch and the guys cam...

According to the current models 84% chance of rain in the hood Sat and Sun. Border is a little more variable at 74%. Lets see if Priscilla weeble wobbles. Racing to get the weed preemergent on.

Trekker uses cooking pots to dig her way out of freak blizzard on Everest

I have decided that for 2025- May was like April, June was like May, July was like June, August was just nasty and hot, September was like August and now October is figuring it out.

Great views, the driving may take longer than you think depending on road conditions. I believe there is no cell service in that area. Have fun!

Just had a K03 on as a spare and it is an E rated or 10 ply tire. I believe the metric size is a 285 for the Toyota due to it's lift. I forgot to mention on my previous post on the Cooper STT Pro the tire I replaced just had 8 lbs of air in it when I drove it to the tire shop and had minimal deformi...

Although a small mining history town one thing they have going for them is the mine. Those guys have the heavy equipment. Unless the roads under the water is undermined the most I saw was river cobble with could be pretty easily removed even with a tire or log drag from a pickup truck. Small propane...

Heads up! Just saw a TV channel news item on the uranium mines ( abandoned) in the Sierra Ancha. Seems a new Nuclear Power Plant is on the drawing board and of course needs uranium. It mentioned the company that had bought up a bunch of the claims stated that they had no plans to open any of them, t...

Sadly apparently 3 people died in the Globe Miami flooding with SAR on site; the Mayor is declaring a state of emergency there.

@chumley
I have plans in the general area but will have to see if accessible. Jeep trip for sure.

About 3 hours ago--https://www.azfamily.com/2025/09/25/flo ... ng-effect/

Real crisis is the Walmart there was closed.

KO2 on the Toyota; the Jeep has Cooper STT pro both 10 ply. For what I do can't have less. On the second set on the Jeep ran a piece of rebar into one of the rear tires at an old mine site and drove it home including interstate without realizing it. ( TPMS is off on the Jeep, what an annoyance). The...

Currently under a flash flood warning, a little rain but some very loud bright lightning displays. Few minutes later, getting pretty good rain.

For southern az specifically
https://www.weather.gov/twc/monsoon

Thread degredation warning-- you want sticker shock most of the online cottage gear sellers must be having supply or worker issues. I did a major purge of some of my gear that wasn't cutting it and replacing with some that will--- at a high cost. Just took delivery of a dyneema tent 2P that I can li...

Yeah, depressing watching the 60-90% chance of rain to pretty much " maybe scattered thunderstorms" like any generic monsoon forecast.

Well, to get at the large older hiking population south of Tucson anywhere near the nearest Trader Joe's.