Not particularly picky where, it'd just be fun to start a little deeper than we usually can. We'll exit on our own. If someone is heading deeper than what can be done with a Subaru etc in this general region on a Wednesday or Thursday and would have room for two people and two ~60-70L backpacks we c...

Since it's a native structure and they have their own word for it, that seems more appropriate to use.

Life goes on.

@Jim_H rants about never stepping foot into commiefornia etc were off topic as well. :) Just pointing out that CA & AZ actually have a very communist relationship that AZ benefits from - CA contributes according to it’s ability and AZ gets subsidized according to it’s need. I guess there’s a no...

People upset about government handouts and welfare should petition the AZ state government to pay off the billions they owe the Feds for the subsidized water flowing into Phoenix (CAP etc), and have them return half of the federal tax dollars that come in! AZ gets nearly $2 back for every $1 paid in...

@Jim_H gas up in Bishop or the station just north of Big Pine if you're there. Prices are pretty reasonable due to stations being on reservation land, the further north you go the worse prices get (Mammoth > Lee Vining > Bridgeport can be a $1 difference).

$10 per tag seems like it'd add up to the point where I'd just DIY contact info on something.

I tend to occasionally lose small pieces of gear in really out of the way places vs large ones where people would often frequent. :/

Brought over and expanded to from elsewhere (I had gotten a bit off topic as what I'm talking about is mostly effects higher elevation land I'm more familiar with): I feel like the Sierra Ancha could use more managed/prescribed burns that clear things out before enough fuel gathers for fires of cata...

There's different levels of intensity with fires as @nonot alluded to. Non fire adapted environments like the low desert are a situation I don't have any real answers for, but all shade bearing trees gone in all riparian areas etc seem highly unlikely to me. I suppose as the climate gets more errati...

@Grasshopper yeah I combined 236 and 236A in that sentence. I'll break that out clearer. :) The upper 4WD section of FR236: FR236 past the junction with FR236A is pretty rough. Found two lugs, a handle, some conduit, and 5-10 pieces of shattered undercarraige from DuPont Cabin down. We joked we cou...

FR71 The Punkin Center crossing on FR71 was being rebuilt when we crossed it on 2022-01-27. A main flow was full of even grapefruit sized smooth rocks, with a little berm above to slow down flow and some heavy machinery was moving rock and dirt about. Was probably around calf-high clear water, spre...

@nonot mainly smaller internal storage space taken & lack of having to pedal long distances + elevation gain before hiking, especially if we're going backpacking and we need to pack in water. Riding a MTB up from 236A to the Dupont Cabin with my 60L pack bungied up on top of a back rack doesn't...

I've been pondering an electric scooter as a trailhead vehicle heh. Obviously not an ideal 4x4 vehicle, and I'm sure I'd be walking it in places, but for something I could toss in the back of my vehicle and then head off on rougher roads from a basecamp it seems pretty convenient and a relatively lo...

I'm sure there's some nice terrain in there, but IMHO the good stuff is south of 108.

In actual wilderness areas standard bikes aren’t allowed on trails, so ebikes should be a no go. Most places limit ebikes to the class 1 (pedal assist / 20mph limit) though I saw a few people not pedaling up hills on a trip to Acadia NP on the carriage roads. I have a few friends / family members in...

@rcorfman what’s the harm in it? I know of some people that use it that wouldn’t bother with GPS coordinates.

It’s not going to change the world as we know it, but most things don’t.

It's useful for non-frequent / casual users to explain where they are vs reading off long and lat, WGS84 vs NAD27, standard vs nautical, etc that SAR will ask for. It's also less likely to have a number misheard over a patchy signal or something. I don't think it'll replace long/lat for more advance...

@AZHiker456 I remember the dragontails being pretty stiff (I had a pair in... 17?), haven't tried those other shoes. I imagine it's shifted a bit in design since. The mountain trainers (haven't tried the light version) were just more of a technical build than what I'd normally go backpacking in, bu...

It's a great resource and has definitely helped give me much more of an appreciation for Arizona than I had before!

As @grasshopper has pointed out, I did my homework and being up around FR236 earlier this year is what pushed me to want to explore more of that area. :) The bushwhack down the falls @ workman would have most likely been fine if unenjoyable, but it would have been nice to at least see one person wen...

Not everyone did the bushwhack, I had read those while looking at the trip as an option and decided to just grab some dayhikes in the area instead heh. People doing 3/4? up the cliffs: "I led it and setup a top rope anchor - had two people who wanted a belay. The others just used the rope as a ...