Ruth Bindler Tuesday March 19, dawned in the mid-50s as a beautiful, sunny day with very little wind, a welcome respite from some cold, rainy and windy weather in the previous week. It was a perfect day for a group of 16 PebbleCreek hikers to head for Yarnell. Although a few hiking groups from the…
Another year, another milestone Lynn Warren This year represents an important milestone for those “49’ers” turning 70 so Clare Bangs’ grandson challenged his grandfather to hike 70 miles in seven days to celebrate, which Clare and several others handled easily. Those 70 miles helped Clare reach the lofty milestone of 6,000 miles on March 25,…
Pete Williams The PebbleCreek Hiking Club did an overnight hiking trip to Death Valley February 26-March 1. The weather was terrific; sunny and 70-80 degrees each day. While there is little vegetation there, Death Valley is surprisingly scenic with lots of colorful rock formations. And we visited a couple of waterfalls with water flowing as…
Hikers enjoy wildflowers in Skyline Park Lynn Warren Buckeye’s nearby Skyline Park has great trails which can be combined in numerous ways to meet the distance and elevation desires of hikers. On February 20, twenty PC Hikers completed a relatively easy six-mile hike and enjoyed seeing nice clusters of Mexican Poppies along the Chuckwalla Trail,…
Lynn Warren Marilyn Reynolds has been hiking with the club since 2008 and it took almost eight years to get her first 1,000 miles since she was a snowbird; upon becoming a full-timer, her pace accelerated and she reached the second thousand in 2017 and on January 31, 2019, she reached 3,000 career miles and…
Pete Williams Twelve hikers from the PebbleCreek Hiking Club did an adventurous hike around Twin Peaks and up to Dana’s Arch in Wickenburg on January 30. This loop hike goes over a saddle, across open desert, along a sandy wash, up a narrow canyon and finally a bushwhack up to an interesting arch. The club…
PC hikers reach milestone on a chilly day Lynn Warren Jim Gillespie has enjoyed hiking for most of his life and began 2019 by passing a significant milestone when he reached 3,000 career miles by leading a “C” hike in Black Canyon near Black Canyon City. Usually the “C” rates a hike according to distance…
Lynn Warren For a post-Thanksgiving adventure, four “B” hikers embarked on an interesting hike in Garfias Wash in the Hell’s Canyon Wilderness area roughly halfway between Morristown and the historic Castle Hot Springs Resort (due to re-open in January after 40+ years). The group was able to go several miles in the wash through some…
Pete Williams On November 13, Doug Jamiolkowski of the PebbleCreek Hiking Club reached 4,000 miles hiked. He has been with the club since the 2004-2005 season and was the one who initiated the tracking of hike miles by each member of the club. Doug is only the fifth hiker to reach the 4,000-mile mark with…
Lynn Warren The Hiking Club conducts several overnight trips during the season and in November, 20 hikers and seven non-hikers enjoyed four busy days in Palm Springs hiking, sightseeing and even people-watching at the weekly Thursday night Village Fest. Fall weather was great and the hikers were able to hike in several interesting areas, including…