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PC Hiking Club Diary – May 2024

Hikers Looking for Gold? Check out the large pieces of quartz rock in this photo. Your PC Hikers searched for gold while exploring the Gloriana Segment of the 80-mile Black Canyon Trail. (This trail is part of the historic National Recreation Trail, a route used since prehistoric times by Native American Tribes. The Gloriana Trailhead…

PC Hiking Club Diary – April 2024

Hiking Lake Pleasant Regional Park Ruth Bindler One of the West Valley’s favorite areas for hiking is the Lake Pleasant Regional Park. It straddles Maricopa and Yavapai counties and contains a 10,000-acre lake created in 1927 by the Carl Pleasant Dam. The lake originally received its water from the Agua Fria River, and in 1973,…