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| Hiking | 3.88 Miles |
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| partners | | ATC Challenge miles to date: 109/133
Date hike with Brad - I've dragged him into the ATC Challenge - and he observed that several of these remaining trails have neither physical challenge nor beauty. True. But dad-gum-it if you give me a challenge - I.will.finish.it!!!
My plan was to do the entire length of West World as a shuttle since it doesn't look like much of a trail from the pieces i've seen. I had three big miscalculations in my planning: (1) There's nowhere to park at the trail's end intersection with Cactus Rd, (2) Barrett Jackson is at West World, and (3) it's sprinkling rain off and on.
So we wasted some time driving around FLW Taliesin property trying to find somewhere mostly legal to park. No luck (although maybe we could have pulled into the service vehicle area by the canal at the top of the hill). So instead we parked at McDowell Mtn Golf Club and took Taliesin trail down to West World. I forgot that I needed that little stretch of Taliesin for ATC list anyway.
Saw a cool golf relic - sign for Sanctuary golf course saying stay off. WW trail is just as boring and awful as I suspected. Basically a service road for powerline vehicles. Only fun part was crossing over the canal. Went all the way to very end (intersection of Cactus Rd and FLW Blvd) and saw a planted palo brea on MSP land. Either planted or airborne since the neighborhood nearby has many of these. So now I can email Nature Guide leader of the Human Impact Study for McDowell Sonoran Field Institute to let her know there is at least one palo brea in the Preserve and it certainly got there by humans.
Then as sun was setting and starting to rain again - went back to the Golf Club and had dinner outside by the fireplace at Mesquite Grille. I'll finish the rest of West World sometime next week. |
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Wildflowers Observation None
one solitary brittle bush in bloom in a disturbed area |
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