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For me it’s not spring fever, it’s hike-itis.

Volunteers are needed for a variety of upcoming Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction events. The mission of PSFR is to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire in and around the Rim

The Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction Committee has coordinated the funding of a $1.32 million fuel reduction project on Hardscrabble Mesa with plans to masticate 1,197 acres.

Undaunted, my daughter trudged up the Highline/Arizona Trail from the Pine Trailhead. She walked this same stretch two years and a pandemic century ago — a different person.

After six months, a grant, a donation, and hundreds of volunteer hours, the Arizona Trail Association has completed a re-route of one of the most hated portions of the Arizona Trail — Passage 25. The Arizona Trail marches up the middle of Arizona. It starts in the south at the Mexican border, then ends in the north at the Utah border. Completed during Arizona’s centennial year 2012, the trail has an extreme reputation due to the lack of water and challenging terrain. Yet since it opened, hundreds have hiked from border to border. The original Passage 25 route took hikers along a pow...