Hiking

Sara, Lowell, and I decided to go and hike Squaw peak.  Dan decided that it was too early in the morning to get up on a Saturday so I left him at home to sleep.  In fact I left, hiked the mountain, and got back before he even got out of bed!!  Anyway, it was a fun hike.  It’s about 1.5 miles one way and it is pretty much all straight up (goes up to around 1200 feet in elevation).  It was crazy to see all the people there that were hiking.  Some more ran up and down than hiked.  In fact some crazy people we saw run up and down more than once!! WOW!!

Here are some pictures from the hike:

Lowell, Sara, and Mary about 3/4 of the way to the top.

“Yeah, I made it to the top!!”

 

Yep, Sara made it too!!

Look at the view! It makes the hike so worth it!

 

The next weekend we decided to go hike Quartz Peak.  It’s supposed be a double dose of Squaw Peak.  We left around 5 in the morning in order to get to the trailhead  before the heat of the day started to set in.  It was about a 40 minute drive according to the directions we found.  However it took us about 2 1/2 to 3 hours to find the trailhead.  You have to take a bunch of dirt roads and there aren’t really any signs pointing you in the right direction.  Since it was nearly 8 am by the time we got to the trailhead we decided we better not start the hike.  It’s about 3 miles one way and goes up to over 2,000 feet high.  Also there were these tiny black flies that covered you when you were outside.  There was a constant buzzing around your head.  I don’t think any of us could have dealt with that all the way to the top!! 

Since we couldn’t hike Quartz Peak we then just went to the Estrella Mountain Park and did the Baseline Trail.  This one is only about 2.4 miles round trip and is pretty flat.  It was also probably good we didn’t hike Quartz Peak because on the Baseline trail Harrison kept saying, “this hike is annoying!”

Well, better luck next time!!