Category: Local Trails

My hatred, sheer loathing, for the first three-quarters of a mile of this run is eclipsed only by my fondness for a sublime four-mile stretch later…

Many’s the time I have run in Skunk Canyon and not once have I encountered a pungent specimen of the trail’s namesake. Not that I’m complaining;…

So there I was, loping along Forest Road 222, near the split with FR 519, having made the loop around Wing Mountain and heading back the…

That four-mile uphill grind that encompasses the Heart Trail on the north-east side of Mount Elden passes at a couple of junctures the now-decommissioned old (or,…

Please don’t dub me foolhardy, or environmentally insensitive, but two weeks ago I drove 24 miles just to run a five-mile trail. My carbon footprint on…

Here’s a pro tip for when you visit the Iron Springs Trailhead in Munds Park – and, trust me, you’re going to want to run there:…

Every time I head south to Munds Park to run — truth be told, about once a year; twice, tops — I always have a pleasant…

Not that anyone, ahem, of a certain age doesn’t already know this, but it’s best for one’s emotional wellbeing not to scroll through past runs and…

Some days, I get the urge to run on singletrack. Rocks. Roots. A technical challenge. Some days, I feel like running on forest roads. Smoother. Softer.…

Kachina Village, to me, has always seemed a mysterious enclave, somewhat forbidding and not really welcoming to outsiders — meaning folks from Flagstaff. Something about those…