Despite its reputation as a "desert" state, Arizona is one of the most mountainous states in the country. Within its borders are nearly 200 named mountain ranges, over a hundred more hill-ranges, many hundreds of volcanic mounds, and many more hundreds of eroded mountain-like formations within the Grand Canyon and other great canyons and at the periphery of the giant plateaus. By one measure, Arizona has over 7,000 distinct mountains. There is virtually...