I’M QUINCY KOETZ

An outdoorsman and Nurse Practitioner living in Northern California. When I first started this blog, I was an EMT living in Southern California and this blog has followed...

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 By Quincy Koetz

Hiking Faye Canyon, Sedona, Arizona

Fay Canyon is the best bang for your buck in Sedona. Easy, flat and meandering through Red Rock canyons It doesn’t get any redder than this Faye Canyon easily topped the list as our favorite activities in Sedona. This is because it was a perfect “cherry on top” to our first day in the town....

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Active Couple’s First Time Trip to Sedona, Arizona

Traveling pearls and things we want to come back to after our first experience in Sedona, Arizona From the Resort From towers of steel to towers of stone- as we wound around the final stretch of highway on our drive, we were greeted by a skyline far more beautiful than our hometown of Chicago. Colorful...

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Hiking Monument Valley, Arizona

Day: 3 Miles: 710 Location: Monument Valley Tribal Park, Arizona West Mitten, East Mitten, and Merrick Butte, posing for the camera Today’s destination was the famous Monument Valley Tribal Park which is a part of the Navajo Nation. This is the largest Native American Reservation in the country and it spans three states: Colorado, Utah...

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Climbing Humphreys Peak, Flagstaff Arizona

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” ~Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Desert Perspectives Phoenix has forever ruined the image of Arizona. Not that I have anything against, Phoenix, I am a much bigger...

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