Trivia

[Grasshopper]

I really like your new addition of "Arizona Trivia". interesting and informative!

[chumley]

@joebartels
I think the GRIC might object to this plan.

[FOTG]

@SuperstitionGuy

When California succeeds from the Union we will soon be bigger then them all

Na I don't think California will succeed in its efforts to secede from the union....

[chumley]

Attention for Big Canyon increased from 1854-1870. In 1872 Powell changed the name in his reports to... Grand Canyon

It's time to modernize the name again. I think "Ginormous Canyon" would be a good update. This way all those cool GCNP stickers people have on their cars will still be valid. I think the current political winds may be blowing toward "Yuuuge Canyon" though.

[Alston_Neal]

Bigly Gully has a nice feel.

[Alston_Neal]

Will Hohokam Pixy Styx be added to the material culture label? Pioneer period Estrella phase pipette.

[chumley]

The jaguar, ocelot, grizzly bear and gray wolf have been practically pushed out of Arizona due to human growth.

Interesting phrasing. I think adding Dilophosaurus between the grizzly and wolf would still be factually accurate as written.

[hikeaz]

Attention for Big Canyon increased from 1854-1870. In 1872 Powell changed the name in his reports to... Grand Canyon

It's time to modernize the name again. I think "Ginormous Canyon" would be a good update. This way all those cool GCNP stickers people have on their cars will still be valid. I think the current political winds may be blowing toward "Yuuuge Canyon" though.

Xancanyon?

[chumley]

A hiker is dehydrated after losing 2.5% body fluid. 5% nauseous. 10% dizzy, headaches, incapacitated. At 15% you might as well start digging a grave.

It's that famous Hikebot humor!

[joebartels]

I don't know where they come up with this stuff, seems incomplete. It would be necessary to plan ahead and dig the grave first.

[chumley]

"Six pack eddy" on the Colorado River is famous for collecting flotsam which sometimes consist of beer cans.

Not sure how famous this is but I don't recommend googling "six pack eddy" unless you're somebody who likes fotg and mountainmatt's instagram posts.

[chumley]

A small peak in Maricopa County at 742 feet is called Squaw perks Summit. Janet Napolitano could care less unless it brings her publicity. About ten miles away is Squaw Tit.

The edgiest thing officially posted on this site since 2004! I can't believe the filter doesn't work on homepage trivia!

[Al_HikesAZ]

And all this time I thought it was called Squaw PUMPKINS Summit. How in the pumpkin did the actual name sneak through.

[azbackpackr]

Reminds me of a story told to me by a hiking guide in the Southern Arizona Hiking Club. He had posted a hike to that named peak in the club's monthly bulletin. He received a call from an indignant old biddy who said he shouldn't use "that word" in their club bulletin. He retorted, "That's the official name of the peak on the USGS map! Take it up with them!"

[Alston_Neal]

Maybe the Apache name for Weavers Needle will sneak through.....Stallion's ****.....probably not.

[chumley]

Yuma comes from the Old Spanish word umo or smoke. Native people used to make huge bonfires to induce rain.

Despite the depression caused from living near Yuma, the native people must have been terribly disappointed with the results from their bonfires.

[flagscott]

As of 2008 hiking and river running Grand Canyon was 5% deadlier than hiking Mount Everest.

This can't possibly be true. Maybe the gross number of people killed in the Grand Canyon is greater than the number killed on Everest, but as a rate (which is how you measure mortality), there's no way that holds up.

[neilends]

Arizona Trivia: A small peak in Maricopa County at 742 feet is called Squaw perks Summit. Janet Napolitano could care less unless it brings her publicity. About ten miles away is Squaw Tit.

..so true!

Actually, Squaw Peak was never an original name of what is now Piestewa. Its first anglicized name was Squaw Tit Mountain.

https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnis ... _FID:11741

[chumley]

Only 1 of 8 springs at South Mountain is perennial.

Where is the perennial spring on Somo?
(and where are the other 7 seasonal springs!?)

Gotta get them added to the haz map!
[ custom map :: map ]

[chumley]

Historic topo maps have two springs marked.
The first is in the vicinity of where the Holbert Trail crosses a drainage just east of Dobbins Lookout. Satellite photography does not indicate any area of increased vegetation as a result of this hydrological oasis.

The second is along the Geronimo trail where it crosses the drainage that drops down to the scout camp. I can't say I've seen water in either drainage if it wasn't also falling from the sky at the same moment. But I'm not the somo expert here. Anybody else have spring reports to add?

[Grimey]

@chumley

There is a water fountain at the Pima Canyon parking lot. It is only seasonal though, I believe. It can be found just beyond the 20 piles of dog feces that sit 3 feet from a garbage can.