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| | Hiking | 2.39 Miles | 1 Hour 22 Mns | | 2.39 mph |
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| no partners | | | Unlike some other summer evenings I walked this time with a purprose. It was 104, and I had a mission of reaching "The Tree of Life," the neglected environmental art resting in the NE corner of the park, at the busy intersection of McDowell and Galvin Parkway. It's only 1.2 mi from the TH on the south, a part of City Boundary Project at a point where Phoenix and Scottsdale come together. I'd visited these monoliths once before, eyed the "tree's trunk and branches," all shaped with stones and wired together. Topping the "last hill" you can see them from 50 feet above, laying out amid the chaparral like mysterious sentinels. To see this costly and obscure work of art, now 22 years old, is somehow sad. Perhaps I wrongly interpret what it's all about. I brought along my new Canon camera, but discovered too late its weak batteries and the fact I'd left a fully-charged battery pack at home. A dunce, for sure. Did manage a few shots before the camera died. Will come back another time but probably not soon. |
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