Inspiration Point via Windgate Photoset • TheHikingGolfer • 2023-05-31 • HikeArizona.COM

Inspiration Point via Windgate, AZ

	2023-05-31
	8 by TheHikingGolfer

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Inspiration Point via Windgate

Phoenix, AZ

Inspiration Point via Windgate

Phoenix, AZ

Hiking	6.46 Miles	969 AEG

Hiking	6.46 Miles	3 Hrs 5 Mns		2.47 mph
	969 ft AEG	28 Mns Break	5 LBS Pack

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Desert Park Trail - MSP

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Started 5:15am, ended 8:30am. Gateway visitor center to Inspiration Point on Gateway Loop trail and Windgate Pass Trail. Comfortable to start, about 68 degrees. In the shadow of the mountains for a good part of the hike up to Inspiration Point. A few hikers in the area of visitor center but few once I got out on the trail. Very nice at Inspiration Point just listening to the breeze and call of the birds.

More hikers on the way back as I got closer to the visitor center. No surprise. I hiked a short distance on Desert Park trail and ran into a roadrunner. He led me to his nest several feet off the ground in the arm of a saguaro where a young roadrunner was nesting.

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[ checklist ] Greater Roadrunner

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