McDowell Mountain Regional Park

This Friday we hiked the McDowell Mountain Scenic Trail near
Fountain Hills. The hike was about 4.3 miles, and it took us about 1.5 hours to hike it. Not bad, ehh?? Well, the trail was relatively flat, just a few little hills, so that made it a lot easier for us. The area was not bad, didn't have as many pretty views as some of the other hikes. And, also, there was a lot of poop along the trail, horse poop, dog poop, more horse poop, etc, etc....well you get the picture. Anyhow, getting around the poop was probably the most challenging part of our hike this Friday. Grover's friend, Tracy, went along with us again. Whew...thought we had scared her after last week's hike. She sure had some pretty nasty looking blisters from South Mountain's hike, though. But, she seems to be quite the trooper, and decided to come along.

Once we were done with this trail, we decided to go check out the fountain, and walk around the park, which is about 1 mile. Since we were already in the vicinity, might as well check things out. The park was full of lively children playing and running through the water fountains along with a group of seniors having a picnic. The fountain did go off while we were there, and we had an opportunity to get some lovely pictures. Oh, and we got so see a mama duck with all of her little ones, I counted 12, but Grover says 13. I don't know, those little suckers were hard to keep track of, going under the water and making it more difficult for us to count. Once we were done there, we headed back into town, and went out for Mexican food....YEAH!!!! This was an opportunity for us to replenish ourselves, and eat 3x - 4x the calories we had just burned. Afterward, we went to the movies and watched Baby Mama....mmmm....personally, not a very good movie. But I'll let you all decide for yourselves about that.