High Chaparral / Casa Codorniz: Living by Lake Mohave in the Mohave Desert

High Chaparral / Casa Codorniz: Living by Lake Mohave in the Mohave Desert

Wintering in the Desert: The Snowbirds Return to Casa Codorniz Above Lake Mohave

Wintering in the Desert: The Snowbirds Return to Casa Codorniz Above Lake Mohave

Back in the Saddle Again: Exploring Old Mines by OHV in Arizona’s Black Mountains

Back in the Saddle Again: Exploring Old Mines by OHV in Arizona’s Black Mountains

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Mid-April 2025 Lake Mohave Bass Fishing

The desert morning greeted us with that peculiar stillness that only those who've spent time in the Southwest truly understand. As I sipped my coffee on the porch of our modest desert retreat in the foothills above Lake Mohave, I watched the sun crawl above the...

The Sonoran Desert in Bloom

There's something about the desert that speaks to my soul. Perhaps it's the stark contrast to my Kansas upbringing, where the rolling Flint Hills offered a different kind of beauty altogether. Out here in the Sonoran Desert during springtime, though... well, that's a...

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Sunset on Mohave Lake View Ranchos

There's something about the way the light changes in the desert that reminds me of my childhood on the Kansas prairie. Different landscapes entirely, but that same vast sky, that same feeling of being small beneath an endless canvas of blue that slowly transforms into...

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Mojave Desert Wildflowers Anafi

Mojave Desert Wildflowers

In ordinary years when winter and early spring rains are scanty, the annual flowering plants are few; inasmuch as they are in no particular way adapted to endure shortage of water, they wilt and die a few weeks after they have sprung, as if by magic, from the barren...

Topok Gorge Lake Havasu

Colorado River Topok Gorge Lake Havasu

The Topock Gorge on the Colorado River meanders majestically through the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge between Laughlin, Nevada and Lake Havasu, Arizona.Fish Topock Gorge for Striped Bass, Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass, Trout, Bluegill, Redear, and Catfish. While...

Joshua Tree Forest Mt Charleston Las Vegas Nevada

Joshua Tree Forest Mt Charleston Las Vegas Nevada

The slow-growing Joshua tree, which graces much of the Mohave desert ecosystem, is probably the most famous resident of the Mt Charleston area. Named by Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-1800s, the tree's unusual shape reminded them of the Bible...

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Precipitation History of the Mojave Desert Region, 1893–2001

Diverse topography, complex geology, and distinctive plant communities characterize the Mojave Desert region. The desert covers 152,000 km2 of eastern California, southern Nevada, the southwest corner of Utah, and northwest Arizona (fig. 1). On the west and southwest,...

Lee Canyon Ski Area Las Vegas, Nevada

Lee Canyon Ski Area Las Vegas, Nevada

Lee Canyon offers day-lodge facilities for 445 acres of served and hiking terrain. With 860 vertical feet of lifts served terrain, 1,919 vertical feet of hiking routes, 24 serviced snow trails and 3 lifts, plus a tubing area, it truly is Las Vegas' mountain getaway...

Shoshone Cove Lake Mohave

Shoshone Cove Lake Mohave

Shoshone Cove is just north of the Princess Cove launch ramp at Lake Mohave Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Fishing is good for smallmouth bass and striped bass. The wash shoreline is a popular camping and fishing spot. Lake Mohave on the Arizona/Nevada is amazing...

The Twins Trail 7778

The Twins on Trail Triple Seven Eight

Trail 7778 can be accessed from highway 68 and the Old Kingman Highway. It's a very scenic ATV Jeep Trail with dramatic rock formations highlighted by twin rocks towering hundreds of feet over the trail into Arizona's Black Mountains. The Black Mountains of northwest...

Paulette and Sharon Chatting

Morning Jo

Paulette on the back patio chatting with Sharon. Pat testing the Dolly Zoom on the Anafi.

Super Bowl Sunday 2020

Super Bowl Sunday 2020

Now this is how to spend your Super Bowl Sunday….. Bass fishing Lake Mohave! Two state records have come from Lake Mohave; a 63 pound striped bass was caught in 2001 and a 16 lb 4 oz rainbow trout was caught in 1971. Although not state records, Lake Mohave has also...