The sunset after our first big rain Monsoon season has started. We were greeted by our first rain on June 18th. I was out of town, planning to hike in the mountains of Pine, AZ. Thunderstorms get nasty out here, and when I stepped out of my...
We have a vegetable garden near the visitor center that grows corn, beans, squash, and amaranth. We water our plants daily and use an irrigation canal just like the ancestral people of Tonto Basin would have used. ...
On my first day, we started on the trail to the Lower Cliff Dwelling (LCD) in the afternoon. I looked down to our feet, but the paved trail bounced back the Arizona heat to my face, making me even hotter. I asked my supervisor for...