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Snow fell here Monday, at last. Good, we need it. We’ve been parched, withered, absolutely drought-saturated. At this point, we would've even settled for a nice dusting of graupel, anything for some moisture. But — and I feel sheepishly guilty even mentioning this — one upside of the dry November and December in Flagstaff was that the trails higher on the mountain had mostly been easy to traverse, sans snowshoes or even Kahtoola spikes. So it was that, on Christmas Eve morning, I had the unusual pleasure of running one of my favorite short loops one last time before (pres...

The hulking Toyota Tacoma, off-road 4x4 edition, that constitutes (so far) the fleet for the adventure startup Overland Flagstaff is painted orange, technically. But it’s not a garish orange, not some hideous spray-tan orange, more like a burnt sienna pigment that can blend in well with, say, a sunset in the Southern Utah red rocks. That’s fitting, because the premise behind Mike Rickerd’s idea to rent Tacomas fully loaded with camping gear, from cutlery to tent and everything in between, is to have people get close to nature, to see as much as they can in a limited amount of t...

Each year around this time, Shan Dan Horan’s thoughts naturally turn to, well, Taco Bell. No, he’s not hankering for a toasted cheddar chalupa, per se. He’s thinking back to 20 years ago when, as a 16-year-old saving for college and for equipment for his band, he was working the drive-thru window at a Flagstaff Taco Bell. Near closing time, two masked men entered, toting guns. One robbed the safe, and the other kept the barrel of a gun pressed against Horan’s temple throughout. The traumatic episode made quite an impression on the teenager, and its memories stuck with him ...