Tag: hiking

PC Hiking Club Diary

Hikers Conduct a Pink Hike October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month; several members of the hiking club have been affected directly by this dreadful disease and others indirectly through friends or relatives. So, how might a hiking club show support for the fight against such a disease? With a hike, of course. On Oct. 16, 16 members…

PC Hiking Club Diary

“B” Hiker Raises the Bar Higher Lynn Warren has been hiking with the club since retiring from a long IT career with Boeing in 2011. Early on, there were a few club members who had accumulated several thousand miles, and he gave little thought to mileage records. As a young teenager, he was fortunate to…

PC Hiking Club Diary

Hikers Challenge Summer Heat Lynn Warren Since the valley was experiencing consecutive triple-digit days, PebbleCreek hikers started leaving at 5:30 a.m. to avoid the extreme temperatures later in the day. On July 5, five hardy and acclimated hikers enjoyed an 8-mile hike in nearby Estrella Mountain Regional Park, just south of PebbleCreek. The hike started on…

PC Hiking Club Diary

Hiker Reaches New Milestone Lynn Warren Dennis Zigmunt, former club treasurer and a current hike coordinator, is one of the Hiking Club’s octogenarians who apparently thinks of age as just another number and demonstrated this on May 2 when he recorded 6,000 trail miles since joining the club in 2015. For several years, Dennis has…

Hiking the Sonoran Loop

Lynn Warren The White Tank Mountains, just west of PebbleCreek, put on quite a colorful show this spring with lots of brittlebush, poppies, and other wildflowers, followed by outstanding saguaros in bloom. This Maricopa County regional park is a convenient treasure offering an impressive variety of terrain, scenery, and trails for PC hikers who hike…

PC Hiking Club Diary

Enjoying New Sights on Out-of-Area Hikes The PebbleCreek Hiking Club sponsors hikes six days/week. In addition, the club usually arranges some out-of-area hikes each year. On an April trip, three different groups of hikers traveled to Green Valley, south of Tucson. On day one two groups hiked in Saguaro National Park and one group explored…

“B” Hikers Enjoy Lunch in Estrella Foothills

Lynn Warren Estrella Foothills is a close-in area south of PebbleCreek on Estrella Parkway, just east of the Estrella Foothills Community Park, which offers an abundance of trails that can be combined to provide hikes of different lengths and levels of difficulty. On March 16, eight “B” hikers completed a 7-mile, 1100-foot, figure 8 meander…

PC Hiking Club Diary

A Surprise on the Hiking Trail Early in March the PebbleCreek hikers delayed their early morning hike for an hour to give the rain a chance to clear. Although it was March, the weather was quite cold and while hiking in White Tank Regional Park, there was a fresh snowfall to view on the peaks!…

PC Hiking Club Diary

“B” Hikers Enjoy Views at Goat Camp Overlook Lynn Warren The nearby White Tank Mountain Park has numerous impressive trails and is a favorite area for PC hikers. One of the steeper, more challenging trails is Goat Camp, leading many years ago to summer grazing and corral areas for goats. Today, the trail is probably…