Coyotes on the prowl! 🐺🐺🌄
Two adult coyotes head east in the foothills of the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, getting ready for their evening hunt. Mad Desert Trekking adventure guide Liz Bologna shot the footage while leading a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure, Feb. 19, 2024.
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Video shot by Liz Bologna | Mad Desert Trekking | 02-19-24
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Think outside. No box required. 🥾🌄🧭
Here Mad Desert Trekking super fan Vijay R., Chandler, Arizona, takes an adventurous route on rocky trails with fantastic views of Metro Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun. Michael Albrough, adventure guide for Mad Desert Trekking, lead the Amazing Two-Hour Guided Fitness Hiking Adventure in South Mountain Park, Phoenix, Sept. 26, 2023.
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Photos by Michael Albrough | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-19-23
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Encounters of the Wild Kind in the Sonoran Desert, Scottsdale, Arizona
You never know what you're going to find while exploring the Sonoran Desert in Arizona at dawn! 🕷🐇🐍🐕🦎
Here, early-morning risers Emmanuel B., Chicago, with adventure guide Michael Albrough, Mad Desert Trekking, encounter a tenacious cactus and wild creatures roaming the Sonoran Desert while exploring the McDowell Sonoran Preserve during a Scottsdale Desert Classic Guided Hiking Adventure, Aug. 1, 2023.
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Video and images by Michael Albrough | Mad Desert Trekking | 08-01-23
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Tangerine sunset in Phoenix, Arizona. 🌅🌵🦂🕷🐍
Brian J., sports medicine physician, and Sam J., high school student, State College, Pennsylvania, hiked 3.9 miles with 955 feet of elevation gain in a counterclockwise loop on a series of trails in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona, during a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure with Mad Desert Trekking, April 30, 2023. Brian was participating in the annual conference of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine at the Phoenix Convention Center, April 28 to May 3, featuring 2,800 attendees.
Mad Desert Trekking adventure guide Michael Cooper shot the video clip of Brian, Sam and Matt Kalina, adventure guide, Mad Desert Trekking, on Sunset Peak, a half-mile away from Mohave Peak.
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Video clip shot by Michael Cooper — @CoopStains | Mad Desert Trekking | 04-30-23
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Tangerine Sunset, Phoenix Mountains Preserve
Always take the scenic route! 🌅🌵🦂🕷🐍
Brian J., sports medicine physician, and Sam J., high school student, State College, Pennsylvania, hike 3.9 miles with 955 feet of elevation gain in a counterclockwise loop of a series of trails in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona, during a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure with Mad Desert Trekking, April 30, 2023 when the temperature hit 101 degrees, tying a record for that day.
Brian was participating in the annual conference of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine at the Phoenix Convention Center, April 28 to May 3, featuring 2,800 attendees.
Mad Desert Trekking adventure guide Michael Cooper shot the video clip of Brian, Sam and Matt Kalina, adventure guide, Mad Desert Trekking, on Sunset Peak, a half-mile away from Mohave Peak.
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Video clip shot by Michael Cooper | Mad Desert Trekking | 04-30-23
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Take a flying leap of Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona.
There are two things you can always count on when climbing Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona. One, it's always an adventure, and two, you never know what you're going to see next.
Here, a pair of base jumpers leap off the cliff of the sedimentary sandstone head of the camel at Echo Canyon Trailhead, both completing a high-precision, advanced jump that involves a relatively short pre-chute drop of about 500 feet, a 90-degree turn to the west and a landing on a rocky slope.
Michael Cooper, adventure guide, Mad Desert Trekking, captured the scene on video before leading John and Alison, W., Draper, Utah, on an Epic Camelback Guided Hiking Adventure, Nov. 11, 2022.
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Video clip shot by Michael Cooper | Mad Desert Trekking | Nov. 11, 2022
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Wild bobcat encounter! 🐾 🐾 🐾
Wild bobcat encounter! 🐾 🐾 🐾
Michael Cooper, adventure guide, Mad Desert Trekking, spots an adult female bobcat while leading Amelia S., OBGYN resident physician, and Martin Z., supply chain coordinator for a tubing manufacturer, Calgary, Canada, on a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure.
The bobcat was descending rocky scree along a ridge line in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona, as a low-pressure system was passing through the area Nov. 9, 2022.
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Video clip shot by Michael Cooper | Mad Desert Trekking | 11-09-22
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Mad Desert Trekking | Scrambling up the final boulder field to the summit of Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, Sept. 21, 2022.
It's a different kind of fun—and challenging—scrambling on the steep section of the final granite boulder field on Camelback Mountain, 2,706 feet, Phoenix, Arizona.
Bill M., Washington, D.C., and four family members, hike to the summit of the highest peak in Phoenix, Arizona, during an Epic Camelback Mountain Guided Hiking Adventure with Mad Desert Trekking, Sept. 21, 2022.
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Video clip by Michael Cooper | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-21-22
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It definitely takes two to tango—or salsa for that matter. And, this is a first for Mad Desert Trekking—an impromptu mountaintop sunset dance party.
Roberto F., construction manager, and Dr. Elaine G., cosmetic and reconstructive dentist, Los Angeles, pick up the beat in a Cuban-style salsa during a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure with Mad Desert Trekking in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Sept. 17, 2022.
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Video by Matt Kalina | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-17-22
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Tom's Thumb, the well-known, 100-foot-plus tall granite formation in the McDowell Mountains, Scottsdale, Arizona, can be seen from miles away in the Valley of the Sun. To get to it requires hiking one of the two most-difficult trails in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. 👍🏻🌄The other double-black diamond trail is East End.
Nika K., speech language pathologist, Maria M., owner of Brooklyn DanceSport Club, both of Brooklyn, NY, and Veronika D., I.T. manager, Philadelphia, PA, hiked to the base of Tom's Thumb, five miles roundtrip, gaining 1,420 vertical feet. The women, who all met as competitive dancers in New York City, were on a long weekend trip to Scottsdale to celebrate two birthdays.
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Video by Matt Kalina | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-16-22
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Sometimes it's worth it not hitting the snooze button. ⏰ 🥱
Vibrant rays from the rising sun stretch 180 degrees across the Valley of the Sun, as Michael Cooper, adventure guide, Mad Desert Trekking, pans his camera north to south during a Spectacular Sunrise Guided Hiking Adventure with Mad Desert Trekking in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, hiking with Tamarah K. and Aidan O., Albuquerque, N.M., Sept. 11, 2022.
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Video by Michael Cooper | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-11-22
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Hole-in-the-Rock, a conglomerate sandstone formation in Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona, faces directly west to the Valley of the Sun and was used by the Hohokam people hundreds of years ago to record the seasons by marking and placing boulders where sunlight shined through eroded windows in the rock. 🏜️
Here, Yagya S., personal trainer, and his sister Priyanka S., holistic therapy internist, Mumbai, India, check out Hole-in-the-Rock at Papago Park, Phoenix, following an Epic Camelback Mountain Guided Hike with Mad Desert Trekking, Sept. 14, 2022.
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Boomerang clip by Matt Kalina | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-14-22
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While there's currently only one route—Echo Canyon Trail—open to the public to climb to the summit of Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, a re-constructed Cholla Trail, closed since March 2020, on the east side of the mountain may open later this month. 🐪🌄
Here, Asad O., I.T. product manager, and Sahar O., compliance manager, Chicago, Illinois, pose for a video on the summit of the highest peak in Phoenix during an Epic Camelback Mountain Guided Hike with Mad Desert Trekking, Sept. 11, 2022. The couple was celebrating her birthday with a weekend getaway trip to Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Video clip by Matt Kalina | Mad Desert Trekking | 09-11-22
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Distant rain clouds add to the drama of a monsoon sunset over the Valley of the Sun.
Mark K., pharmaceutical production specialist, Elizabeth, N.J., joined Mad Desert Trekking on a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Aug. 24, 2022.
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Video clip by Matt Kalina | Mad Desert Trekking | 08-24-22
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Desert tortoises are the largest land turtles in the United States and can live up to 80 years. They spend as much as 95 percent of their lives underground and out of sight in burrows, rock dens and tunnels to avoid the harsh environment of the desert surface.
Adult desert tortoises can survive an impressive year or more without water, but will drink earnestly when occasional rains hit the desert, gaining up to a whopping 40 percent in body weight. As herbivoires, these hard-shelled reptiles munch on flowers, fruit, grasses and cacti.
As populations have dropped 90 percent since the 1980s, it's more important than ever to help protect habitat for this inconic desert reptile.
The desert tortoise pictured here was photographed near its burrowing area north of a large rocky wash along Gateway Loop Trail, McDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Graphic and photo by Matt Kalina, Mad Desert Trekking | 08-21-22
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With every sunset, a new hope is born, and an old expectation dies. 🌅️🎨🌄
— Noor Unnahar | artist, poet ️
Here, Danielle D., Poughkeepsie, New York, who attended the Color Street National Conference for nail stylists, Phoenix, joined a group of hikers on a Stunning Sunset Guided Hiking Adventure with Mad Desert Trekking, Aug. 4, 2022.
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Photo by Michael Cooper, Mad Desert Trekking | 08-04-22
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It's more of a route than a true trail on the scramble on the boulder fields of upper Echo Canyon Trail, Camelback Mountain, the highest peak in Phoenix, Arizona.
Here Christopher L., county employee and boxing fan, and Stessie L., teacher and photographer, New York City Metro Area, N.Y., scramble down a boulder field during an Epic Camelback Mountain Guided Hike with Mad Desert Trekking.
The couple stayed in Phoenix for two days in their first stop on a road trip through the Southwest, including additional planned stops in Old Town Scottsdale, Sedona, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon National Park, Navajo Nation and Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona; Zion National Park, Utah; and Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Graphic by Matt Kalina 08-18-22 | Photo shot 06-18-22
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