Hiking in the Desert

One of the things we like about Arizona in general and the Phoenix area in particular is that there are lots of interesting areas where we can hike. We drove north through Fountain Hills to get to McDowell Mountain Regional Park. The fountain in the middle of a man-made lake in Fountain Hills goes off every hour and it is one of the highest in the country. When we saw it, there was a lovely rainbow through the spray. The North Trail goes through an area that was devastated by the Rio fire in 1995. There has been a lot of new growth in the interveening years but there are still spines of some giant saguarros pointing up to the sky.