Posts Tagged ‘hiking’

Nature sandwich

How often do you get to use the word juxtapose without people looking at you askance because you’re showing off your fancy-pants art class critique lexicon perhaps unused to its fullest extent since college? Well, here’s your chance, and as a bonus it includes a family outing. Head south on 68th street in South Scottsdale [...]

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Perfect trail days on the Pemberton

The Pemberton Trail at McDowell Mountain Regional Park is the ideal place to hike, bike or horseback ride. The 15-mile trail is ideal for beginning mountain bike riders in terms of terrain, and a fun workout for more experienced riders. There are many trails that intersect with the Pemberton, so shorter rides or hike-worthy distances [...]

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This old stone house

If you like local history and hiking, this is for you. There is a stone house, or what remains of a stone house, in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve that likely dates to the early 20th century. Part of the house is just native rock and dirt, with gravity holding it together. Then an addition was [...]

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No such thing as a bad friend

I recently spent some time with a friend I hadn’t seen in quite awhile. She has two sons, close in age to my own. When all four boys were small, the six of us spent quite a bit of time together. She was the consummate organizer — always quick to suggest a new hiking trail, [...]

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A day that was anything but terrible

Generations of parents have used Judith Viorst’s wonderful children’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, to help their children understand that all of us have days when everything seems to go wrong. Days when mothers forget to put yummy treats in your lunch box and the dentist finds a cavity and the [...]

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