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| - Camelback is easily one of my favorite places in Phoenix. I'd highly suggest going RIGHT NOW, because when my husband and I hiked the Echo Canyon trail on Saturday it was gorgeous! All the rain has turned the mountain green -- well, as green as it will turn. It is still a desert, after all. Anyway, there is grass and weeds and wildflowers and moss all over- it's like a new mountain!
The one thing I don't get about Camelback, however, is how EVERY time I do it, no matter how many times I've done it before, my legs still ache like hell the next day. Oh well.
In addition to the great workout, hiking the mountain exposes you to a great slice o'life. I've seen it all here -- flabby men hiking in speedos, little chihuahuas that ascend this thing faster than I do, helicopter rescues, girlfriends nearly breaking up with their boyfriends because they don't want to go all the way to the top, and people from all over the country, and the world, who make sure to hike the mountain while they're in Phoenix. Very cool.
There is one minor annoyance I have with this place -- and that's the people who hike the entire thing, up and down, at a regular pace... then run the last 5 minutes like a bat out of hell. You're not fooling anyone, toolboxes, we all know you didn't run the whole thing. Quit pretending, and quit knocking me off the trail!
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