I bought a book called "Best Easy Day Hikes: Phoenix" about a month ago. There are 25 hikes total and our goal is to hike all of them. I think that the one that we did today was one of the harder ones. Actually, I just looked at a list that ranks the hikes and the book ranks this one as the hardest one. The consensus of people that we met on the hike today was that this one is actually not quite as physically demanding as the one that it rated just below it.
Information about Squaw Peak Summit Trail from the book:
Total Distance: 2.4 miles
Elevation Gain: 1190 feet
"Squaw Peak, dominating Phoenix's northern skyline, is the centerpiece of the city's Phoenix Mountains Preserve....This steep trail, now trod by over 500,000 hikers annually, attracts more hikers than any other Phoenix trail and is second in Arizona only to the Grand Canyon's Bright Angel Trail in popularity....Other than some young, cigar-shaped saguaros and fishook barrel cacti, few plans survive on these heat-blasted slopes, where surface temperatures can exceed 150 degrees F in summer....All of Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun unfolds below this lofty sky platform with its stunning 360-degree view."
All in all it was a fun trek. We enjoyed getting to the top and very much enjoyed coming back down. The people on the trail were quite friendly and we were able to have a couple of fun conversations. There was even an incident when I thought this guy had headphones on, and I was telling Rachel an embarrassing story of me falling down a rocky patch in Africa and scraping my bum because I was wearing a skirt. He WAS wearing headphones, but when I was telling that story he had taken them off. Go figure.
3 comments:
good job!! those pictures are great- what an awesome view. i want to go hiking with you in phoenix! can you camp up there? how cool would it be to see that view of phoenix at night?!
holly that looks like so much fuN! i'd love to hike like that...i'm glad you're enjoying your Phoenix adventure. :)
ps - have you ever eaten at the Sweet Tomato? Might not be there anymore, and might be lame-oh, but when we went down there when i was in middle school (i have a great aunt who lives in Mesa) each time we visited her, we ate there and LOVED it.
keep hikin' girlfriend!
That picture is great! You conquered it baby! YEAH!
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