
Louis Boucher’s solitary lifestyle in a remote camp deep in Grand Canyon led to the moniker that endures on many of the Canyon’s place names.
Jake is a naturalist, writer, and landscape photographer from Arizona. A geographer by education, he’s worked as a park ranger with the National Park Service, a tour guide at the Grand Canyon South Rim, and a docent at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. Jake has seriously practiced landscape photography since 2009. You can learn more about Jake on the About page.
Louis Boucher’s solitary lifestyle in a remote camp deep in Grand Canyon led to the moniker that endures on many of the Canyon’s place names.
Check out a landscape photographer’s honest hands-on review of the M.Zuiko 9-18mm f/4-5.6 ultra-wide angle lens.
Currently 0% contained, the Brady Fire has prompted forest closures, with two scout camps preparing to evacuate near Payson.
The new national monument will conserve approximately one million acres adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park.
Cover photo (above): Frazier Haney / The Wildlands Conservancy The Wildlands Conservancy announced its completion…
The Sonoran Desert is full of unexpected wonders! Learn more about the unique facts that make this arid region like no other.
We’ve hiked through a variety of Arizona canyon country over the last few years. Some of it crowded, like our mob-infested mid-October foray through Havasu Canyon. Some of it desolate, like the rugged solitude of the Eastern Superstitions. But our recent trip through Aravaipa Canyon was in a league all its own. Of all the descriptors we uttered while navigating the canyon, I think my buddy Dustin came up with the best one: “Underrated.”
America’s National Parks have never been more popular. Avoid the crowds with the most underrated public lands in the American West!
The Inner Basin is one of the coolest (figuratively and literally) places in Arizona to enjoy some jaw-dropping stretches of forest and mountain views.
Following his escape from Florence State Prison in May 1992, convicted bank-robber turned fugitive Danny Ray Horning went on the run for seven weeks, resulting in the largest manhunt in Arizona history. Known as “Rambo” to his pursuers because of his skill at avoiding capture in the wilderness, Horning achieved folk hero status among the general public — viewed as something of a blue-collar Robin Hood. Unknown to the masses at the time, Horning had a dark and disturbing history back home in California’s Central Valley. As a suspect in a 1990 dismemberment murder case and convicted child molester, Horning was not your average fugitive. A tale of cold-blooded murder, wilderness survival, and much, much more: this is the true story of Danny Ray Horning.