Just saw a news blurb that all the hotels on the south rim closing to overnight visitors starting 12/6/2025 with no time line for reopening. Apparently linked to water supply issues and problems with the line exacerbated by the Dragon Bravo fire.

Saw somewhere Death Valley recorded most rainfall ever in November. Should be a awesome wildflower season in the southwest, hopefully.

Oct/Nov= New Monsoon Season

Ash Creek Galiuro will be at least another 1-2 weeks and expect an uneven turn.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-discovered-inside-sulfur-cave-with-111-000-arachnids-living-in-pitch-black?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us huge web in cave over 1000 sq feet and estimated to house over 100,000 spiders. The video of the caver gently pressing on th...

Wahhh!! just watched a video on the new Land Cruiser FJ, and while it's a bit fugly looks functional as is built on the Prado/HIlux frame and is smaller so would be good for tight places and shorter which would make it pretty good in some areas. BUT as of right now not coming to US. Wahhh!

Sahuarita full. Go away.

Why couldn't they have timed the government shutdown just a little later? That's when to play on these sites!

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.