Lynn Warren July 31 was another hot, humid day in Phoenix (high of 110 degrees). To escape the heat, eight hikers headed to the Camp Verde area to hike a club favorite at West Clear Creek. The drive down to the trailhead was challenging, and best done with a high clearance vehicle, but the hike…
Lynn Warren On June 6, the 80th anniversary of D-Day, nine “D” hikers enjoyed a relatively easy but scenic 4-mile loop in Estrella Mountain Regional Park just 20 minutes south of PebbleCreek. During the summer months, hikes start as early as 5:30 a.m. to beat the heat, which was very appropriate for this hike since…
Lynn Warren How do hikers escape triple-digit temperatures in the valley? Well, one popular way is to head for higher elevation so on July 18, a combination of ten “B” and “C” hikers headed for West Clear Creek, a few miles southeast of Camp Verde. The “B” hike was a relatively easy ten miles RT…
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…
Lynn Warren Gary Bray is one of several Canadian members of the hiking club and began hiking with the club in 2007, normally hiking just one day a week. On February 24 Gary became only the second Canadian (and first from Ontario) to reach 1,609 km (1,000 miles). It was a beautiful, sunny day for…
Pete Williams On March 10 twenty hikers from the PebbleCreek Hiking Club did a hike in nearby Skyline Regional Park. The wildflowers were outstanding! Because we have had good winter rains, the desert is so green it’s almost unrecognizable. Standing in front of a hillside of blooming Brittlebush are (left to right): Jim Gillespie, Linda…
Lynn Warren The 100,000 acre Eagletail Mountains Wilderness area is located along the western edge of the Harquahala Valley and is accessed via I-10, Exit 81, just 45 miles west of PebbleCreek. Although the last few miles require driving on a rocky, unpaved road, the area rewards hikers with scenery comparable to portions of the…
Lynn Warren Pete Williams is on a roll-—another season, another major milestone. In 2014 he passed the 5,000 mile mark and on July 13, 2015, on an 8.5 mile hike in Black Canyon (near the Rock Springs Café), he passed the 6,000 mile mark, becoming only the second club member to reach this lofty level.…
Lynn Warren PebbleCreek hikers travel far and wide to experience interesting hikes but on December 12, since they don’t like hiking in the rain, went just a short distance south of PebbleCreek to enjoy a brisk ten mile hike in Estrella Mountain Regional Park, finishing just in time to avoid an incoming weather system. The…
Pete Williams During the PebbleCreek Hiking Club’s recent overnight trip to Palm Springs, Lynn Warren reached the 3,000 miles hiked plateau. Lynn became only the fifth hiker in the 10 years the club has tracked miles hiked to reach 3,000 miles. We were hiking the well known Ladders Trail in Meca Hills. The club does…