Just Roughin’ It will organize an adventure of many lifetimes for you if you’re an avid hiker, backpacker, and all around adventurer.

For starters, we provide you with the best quality equipment that lets you carry what seems like an entire house (yeah, including the kitchen sink…no, not really) on your back, including your personal stuff, but it never weighs more than 30 pounds, and we don’t let you carry more than 25% of your total body weight (so we’re ergonomic like that).

The day hikes throughout the Grand Canyon are incredible. Hikers love the Cedar Ridge hike where we follow the South Kaibab trail, and if you want to we can add another three miles on to see the Colorado River roaring almost 3,000 feet below us from our vantage at Skeleton Point. Bet you never knew there was so much to see and do in six miles.

Urban Hiking

Then there’s “urban legend” hiking…yeah, city hiking! That may sound crazy, but in the metropolitan Phoenix and Central Arizona area it can be done. We see South Mountain’s flowers, wildlife, and petroglyphs, along with the haunting desert of Cave Creek.

Then there’s the Phoenix Mountain Preserve in the heart of the city! We love the trails there, and you get to see the unexpected–as well as look down from over 2,300 feet all across Phoenix and down into the Valley of the Sun.

Of course, our guides can’t resist leading willing groups to try to find the century-old “Lost Dutchman’s Gold” of the Superstition Mountains.

Then there are the vast, byzantine array of trails to the north-east of the city in the Mazatzals’ (Spanish for “land of the deer”) Four Peaks, where we visit a much talked about working amethyst mine. It is not accessible by the general public, but the mine used to be owned by a close relative of one of the owners of Just Roughin’ It.

Special Permit Hikes

Speaking of exclusive hiking clubs, Just Roughin’ It has some special permits to help you get a real tour of the Aravaipa Canyon about 50 miles northeast of Tucson, amongst the Sky Islands’ Catalinas. The deer, frogs, snakes, desert flowers, and essentially untouched streams and rivers stir up the primitive in everyone’s heart!