Hard to not be just a little bit jealous when you drop off your friend at the airport for her nearly three-week trek to Everest basecamp…

It turns out that it’s not as difficult as you would think to find a black hat at night in the desert hours after you left it in top of a random hill. #themoreyouknow

Impromptu fire-pan

Go home Joshua Tree, you’re drunk.

Leaping over 17 Palms, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park #fb

Please don’t feed the wildlife. β€”with Lucie Sinsabaugh at Galleta Meadows, Borrego Desert #fb

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Here Lucie, have a snickers… #hangry #fb

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Lunch amongst the palm grove #anzaborregosp

Harquahala Peak #azcountyhighpoint

Big Horn Mountain #whyaz #conservationlands

Higher than the highest point in La Paz County. #azcountyhighpoint #fb

Today’s jump photo is courtesy of my newest quest: to visit the highest point in each of Arizona’s fifteen counties. 2 down, 13 to go.

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No comment. #latergram #lampoonchristmas

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Honored to serve on today’s panel on partnerships at the Carhart National Wilderness Training Center conference with my amazing colleagues Nathan Newcomer from New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Matt Nelson from Arizona Trail Association, and Brian Stultz & Barbara Hawke from Arizona Wilderness Coalition. #fb