Hikers Challenge Skyline Lynn Warren On Sept. 25, on one of the first hikes of the 2024-25 season, eight experienced “B” hikers got an early start at Buckeye’s Skyline Park and completed a 9.7-mile loop which encompassed three challenging climbs to Mountain Wash, Pyrite Summit and the north side of Turnbuckle, for a total elevation…
Hikers in the Dells Lynn Warren On Aug. 30, six PebbleCreek hikers decided to take a break from the oppressive valley heat and head north to the cooler climes of Prescott. Just a few miles northeast of Prescott is an area known as the Granite Dells, small mountains of exposed granite which has been a…
Hiker Hits Another Milestone For over 20 years, the hiking club has tracked statistics for every hike and Lynn Warren has held the record for most miles hiked for several years. He normally would have hit the 17,000-mile milestone several months earlier but came up 40 miles short and had to take time off because…
“B” Hikers Enjoy a White Tanks Loop Lynn Warren The White Tank Mountain Regional Park is a short distance northwest of PebbleCreek and is visited and enjoyed frequently by PebbleCreek hikers. On June 15, six “B” hikers completed a scenic, counterclockwise 8-mile loop, which started at the library and combined Mule Deer, Waterfall, and a…
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,…
Lynn Warren On a comfortable but slightly overcast Feb. 24 morning, 19 hikers enjoyed a quick 5.7-mile hike in nearby Verrado. The group started at the golf course and proceeded in a counterclockwise direction to cross Central Wash on the way to the popular petroglyphs, and then returned to the parking area via the SOB…
Do the PebbleCreek Hikers Ever Get Lost? Jan Sherwood Each month, photos and articles feature PebbleCreek hiking adventures; perhaps you wonder how we know where to hike and how we don’t get lost. For most hikes, there already are maps, parking lots, trail signs, and usually restrooms at trailheads. There are also more informal trails…
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…
“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…
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…