**These hikes took place on O’odham, Akimel O’odham, and Yavapai Apache lands** It’s time for another round up of new hikes! After our attempt to hike Piestawa Peak a couple weekends prior we knew that if we wanted to find a parking spot we needed to get there early. 5 am early. So we woke… Read More Four Months In – Hiking Roundup
Before moving from Kansas we had a fantastic camping trip with my sister, one of her friends, and a friend of mine. We had a wonderful time in the Ozarks camping with friends and had planned on doing more trips like that. Then Kirk got a new job and we were sad to give up… Read More A Chilled Camping Weekend
Since we had a three day weekend we decided to explore outside the city more. This time our destination was Saguaro National Park. We woke up at 3:30am to drive down and hit the Desert Discovery Trail just as the sun was rising. Every time a trail has plant identification signs we’re thrilled. There is… Read More Sea of Saguaros
To get away from the brutal desert heat we headed north to Prescott. Prescott has a history as an Old West town and was founded by Colonel William Prescott, a notable person during the Revolutionary War. To establish his allegiance to his new country he changed the pronunciation of his last name from “Pres-cot” to… Read More Prescott, Like Biscuit
Since we’ve moved out here, almost a month and a half ago, we’ve hiked every weekend. Most of these hikes have been about 2 hours or less than 5 miles. It gets hot quick! Usually we wake up at 5 to head to a trailhead and by 6 it’s 95+ degrees. Once the sun hits… Read More Two Months In – Hiking Roundup
It’s been a minute but we have some news (and new posts soon); we’ve renamed our blog and updated our social media as well! Endeavor to Adventure reflects our lifestyle and what we want this blog to be focused on. We’re making a couple of other changes too. Instead of both of us writing every… Read More Introducing: Endeavor to Adventure
When shelter in places orders swept the country we were thankful that we were in an “essential” industry and accepted that we wouldn’t be going anywhere for the next year or so. If you had told us that we would be moving in the middle of the summer during a spike in COVID cases to… Read More What’s That Cactus?
Friday was suppose to be our last day of work. Instead we bought a second kayak. We made the decision to cancel our thruhike almost a month ago. Our area has been under a stay at home order since March 24th, we’ve been working from home for a little longer than that, and we signed… Read More Not the Year we Envisioned
As southbound thru-hiking season approaches we’re starting to get antsy. Shaking our fists at the cold spells on the weekend and staring longingly out our work windows. After Kirk was sick in January and February came with overtime at work we fell off our training schedule. Now that we’re starting to see the trees budding… Read More CDT Training
This year has been a big one for us! A few quick highlights: we went to New York City, we got married, and we adopted two cats! We thought we’d do a year-end wrap-up post and a look into what we have planned for 2020. So without further ado: Favorite Trip Our favorite non-camping trip… Read More A Few of Our Favorite Things
