Embedded into the backcountry areas of Zion National Park, the Sierra Nevada, Death Valley National Park, and the Mojave Desert, Courtney Purcell's ramblings have also taken him all across the country and the world. From hiking, climbing and peakbagging in the Rockies, the Andes, the high volcanoes of Washington and Mexico, into the depths explored in spelunking, and the canyoneering of the Colorado Plateau, here you'll find trip reports, route beta and "stuff" relevant to the world of...
Where: near Bagdad, Arizona
After boring our ways through Jerome and Prescott, we decided to burn a hole through Bagdad and all those other no-name "towns" one easily forgets about while passing through northwestern Arizona. A spark of light, though, came as a total surprise to us when we happened upon miles of saguaros in this northern Arizona desert...and two wild horses!
