Hike to Tom’s Thumb Ruth Bindler The McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale is the third largest city park in the United States, measuring over 30,000 acres. The 225 miles of hiking trails are well-maintained and scenic. PebbleCreek hikers enjoy many adventures in the park and among the favorite is a challenging 1800 ft elevation gain…
Picturesque Prescott Hike Jan Sherwood In November, a group of PebbleCreek Hikers went to Prescott on an overnight trip. Doing an overnight trip eliminates the daily long drive and enables hikers to do more relaxing back-to-back hikes. The area is a favorite, especially in the fall when the leaves turn golden with cooler temperatures. It…
Hiking the Wave Lynn Warren The Wave is an amazing Arizona rock formation located in Coyote Buttes North near the Utah border. This bucket-list hiking and photographic attraction consists of layers of Navajo sandstone formed over millions of years and later thrust up and eroded to create the undulating striations seen in photographs featured in publications…
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…