Lynn Warren On May 1, five hikers enjoyed an interesting eight-mile hike in the Tres Rios Base and Meridian Wildlife Area south of PebbleCreek. The hike started with a steep climb to the top of Monument Hill just east of the Phoenix Raceway, which provided a great overlook of the racetrack and surrounding area. The top…
Cynthia Schwartz For those who love pickleball and play several times a week, the shutdown of the courts has been an opportunity to explore other kinds of physical activity and fun. A group of women in PebbleCreek have kicked off their court shoes, found their hiking boots, and headed to the hills. Ellen Enright decided…
PC Hiker Celebrates Milestone Lynn Warren Linda Schmillen has been hiking with the PebbleCreek Hiking Club since 2016 and on March 7, reached the important milestone of 1,000 miles. Before splitting into smaller groups and departing for Ford Canyon Dam, a large group of “B” and “C” hikers joined Linda in the White Tanks on…
PC Hiker Sets Another Club Record Lynn Warren The hiking club conducts hikes six days a week so many club records are being broken, but one record is unique. On Feb. 8, Pete Williams, a constant hiker since 2006, became the first and only club hiker to achieve 11,000 miles. Pete and fellow hikers celebrated…
Jan Hansen Recently members of the PC Singles enjoyed an early morning hike in the White Tank Mountains, enjoying the sights this beautiful place has to offer. Hiking is one of the many activities members can participate in and enjoy with fellow members and friends. Highlighting the 2020 social calendar this month was the entertainment of…
Hikers Enjoy Views from Shiprock Lynn Warren If you travel Hwy. 93 toward Las Vegas, you pass through forests of Joshua Trees approximately 25 miles beyond Wickenburg and if you look west at the right time (MP 163), you may see the rock monolith known as Shiprock rising from the desert. On Dec. 19, six…
Lynn Warren On Dec. 5, five “B” hikers hiked/scrambled to the top of 4,000-foot Quartz Peak and demonstrated some Christmas spirit while relaxing on the brilliant white quartz outcropping at the summit. This peak is in the middle of the Sierra Estrellas, which you see when driving on I-10 since the range lies just south of…
Lynn Warren The Hiking Club normally goes on two overnight trips each season and on Nov. 12, more than 40 hikers and non-hikers headed north to Sedona for three days of red rock hiking. On the first day, Julie Walmsley along with more than 40 friends celebrated her reaching 1,000 miles with the club. On the second…
Lynn Warren Hiking in the Superstitions seldom disappoints but having to cope with I-10 commuter traffic causes the hiking club to hike these iconic mountains less frequently than a few years ago. However, on Oct. 14, six PebbleCreek “B” hikers headed east to enjoy one of their favorite hikes, an 8.5-mile hike with roughly 2,200…
Pete Williams On a bright clear Oct. 9 day, ten hikers from the PebbleCreek Hiking Club wandered through a Joshua Tree Forest just north of Wickenburg. Our destination was a single Saguaro living among the Joshua trees. What’s fascinating is that Joshua trees live is the Mohave Desert while Saguaros live in the Sonoran Desert.…