Do you know anyone who has run the Grand Canyon rim 38 times, climbed and camped on Mount Shasta in the winter, jumped out of an airplane 200 times, climbed Weaver’s Needle in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains 20 times, and run the Colorado River during its historic floods in 1972? This is just a sample of […]
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The Real Wilderness The Plains Indians traditionally marked the passage from childhood to adulthood through a wilderness experience often called a vision quest. The purpose was simple: step away from the distractions of daily life and look inward. This story is about ten teenage girls who were given a similar opportunity in the rugged Chiricahua
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While I was living in the White Mountains of Arizona, I had an opportunity to build a seven-circuit “Cretan” labyrinth, named after those found in ancient Greece on a friends property. The location was decided on the south side and down a short incline from her home. There were plenty of short old logs laying
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Women can be just as wild and wooly as men. The ladies of the “Wild West” in this post were notorious female gamblers. Fierce and strong as any man, but in a different way. In this time period women had to use their charms and wits instead of the brawn a man usually displays. Gunsmoke’s
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Written by Katarina Betterton Only a handful of settings exist in the world where you can be in two places at once. Even fewer exist that allow you to stand in four different states! In the southwest of the United States, however, you can stand in four separate states at once. It’s called the Four
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Medicine Women of the Four Corners Curanderas -women who heal – have existed since time immemorial. Even in our modern age, their presence remains powerful, relevant, and deeply needed. These healers often believe they have been called to their path through divine guidance. Rooted in faith and devotion, many curanderas work within traditions influenced by
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Come to Southern Arizona for hauntings, hummingbirds and hard gold! Southern Arizona is filled with surprises—from hummingbird havens and hard-rock mining history to ghost tours and Old West shootouts. Spring and fall offer the most comfortable weather for exploring, before the intense heat of summer settles over the desert. I got lost in the desert
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