The Gila is flowing now, Dec 11. Annual shut off as usual was the month of November for irrigation canal maintenance. Its mostly an artificial flow river managed for downstream farmers. It usually runs all spring and summer for the farmers. And many times even when flow is shut off from the dam at S...

Ricochet! Been hiking many years and numerous interactions with hunters and target shooters, growers, emigrants and crazies. Bullets can fly any time of year and anywhere in hiking country. Don't forget about ricochet. Especially downrange. If you are from forest and soft soil country, remember that...