Celebrating a Hiking Milestone Pam Marshall On Dec. 13, a clear sunny day with a chill in the air, 18 members of the PebbleCreek Hiking Club met to celebrate a hiking milestone for one of its members. The group met at White Tank Mountain Regional Park and hiked the popular Library to Waterfall trail. In…
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…
Hiking Club Safety Dana Thomas Barb Kripps, second from the right in the photo, chairs the PebbleCreek Hiking Club Safety Committee. The Safety Committee recommends the items that every hiker must carry and the contents of the advanced medical kit that hike leaders carry. Barb is also a hike leader and led the hike pictured…
Hikers Challenge Summer Heat Lynn Warren Since the valley was experiencing consecutive triple-digit days, PebbleCreek hikers started leaving at 5:30 a.m. to avoid the extreme temperatures later in the day. On July 5, five hardy and acclimated hikers enjoyed an 8-mile hike in nearby Estrella Mountain Regional Park, just south of PebbleCreek. The hike started on…
Hiker Reaches New Milestone Lynn Warren Dennis Zigmunt, former club treasurer and a current hike coordinator, is one of the Hiking Club’s octogenarians who apparently thinks of age as just another number and demonstrated this on May 2 when he recorded 6,000 trail miles since joining the club in 2015. For several years, Dennis has…
Enjoying New Sights on Out-of-Area Hikes The PebbleCreek Hiking Club sponsors hikes six days/week. In addition, the club usually arranges some out-of-area hikes each year. On an April trip, three different groups of hikers traveled to Green Valley, south of Tucson. On day one two groups hiked in Saguaro National Park and one group explored…
A Surprise on the Hiking Trail Early in March the PebbleCreek hikers delayed their early morning hike for an hour to give the rain a chance to clear. Although it was March, the weather was quite cold and while hiking in White Tank Regional Park, there was a fresh snowfall to view on the peaks!…
“B” Hikers Enjoy Views at Goat Camp Overlook Lynn Warren The nearby White Tank Mountain Park has numerous impressive trails and is a favorite area for PC hikers. One of the steeper, more challenging trails is Goat Camp, leading many years ago to summer grazing and corral areas for goats. Today, the trail is probably…
A Milestone Hike at the McDowell Sonoran Preserve A group of 18 hikers from the PebbleCreek Hiking Club traveled on Dec. 8 to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, to hike about 5 miles from the Pima Dynamite Trailhead. The hikers celebrated a double milestone for Joe Clarkson, who was honored both for hiking 3,000…
“B” Hikers Find Fall Foliage Lynn Warren The hiking club normally hikes reasonably close to PebbleCreek but occasionally ventures a little farther away. On Dec. 1, four “B” hikers headed to the Superior area to hike around Picketpost Mountain. The 11-mile hike started in rugged Arnett Canyon, which impressed not only with outstanding rock formations,…