For 24 years, M. John Fayhee dwelled in the Colorado High Country, where winters are both severe and long. He teamed up with renowned nature photographer John Fielder to chronicle an adventuresome life led in a land where the air is thin and the temperatures low.
M. John Fayhee was one of the first people to thru-hike the 850-mile Arizona Trail, which travels from the Utah border to the Mexican border. The two-month trek was difficult to two reasons. First, Arizona was experiencing severe drought — meaning water sources were even more scarce than usual. Second, there were significant sections of […]
In 1996, M. John Fayhee embarked upon a two-month journey that saw him traverse the 850 miles of the Continental Divide Trail that pass through Colorado. The undertaking was made even more challenging by the fact that only about 70 percent of the CDT through Colorado was actually existed. There was much in the way […]
A Celebration of Life in the High Country-personal anthology
For more than two decades, Silver City resident M. John Fayhee lived above 9,000 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, a spectacular land where winters can last seven months a year and where annual snowfalls can reach the height of second-story roofs. For the first couple years of that time, he was employed by a […]
Adventure travel
In 1992, M. John Fayhee became one of the first people to hike the 470-mile Colorado Trail end-to-end. It was early enough in the development of the CT that large sections of the trail did not yet physically exist. Therefore, he was forced to use map and compass in those pre-GPS days to work his […]
A Hiking and Backpacking Guide to Tarahumara-Land
M. John Fayhee, who attended Western New Mexico University, began his explorations of Mexico’s Barrancas del Cobre — Copper Canyon — in the early 1980s when he took a detour from a multi-month overland trip to Central America. Armed with little more than a hand-drawn map, he tentatively ventured into the depths of North America’s […]
