The Squaw Peak Hiker
Informing hikers since 2003
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Phoenix Mountain Preserve
Site last updated: 03/03/2010 03:20 PM
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This Website has been established in honor of the hikers of Squaw Peak. Like myself, most of the regular hikers of Squaw Peak started hiking the summit trail long before there was any attempt to rename the peak. As a previous survey showed the name Squaw Peak will remain the name that we use to refer to our mountain. Although not "politically correct" this is the reason this Website was not changed. As many of you know I was one of the principal voices against the name change and was quoted on many occasions during that time by the media. My feelings have not changed and although I do not spend as much time on the peak as I did in previous years, I still consider Squaw Peak as my favorite because it was the introduction to my hiking.
As they occur, I will be adding items pertaining directly to Squaw Peak to this Website. If you have any comments or concerns, please send them to larry@squawpeakhiker.org or our alternate Webmaster dennis@squawpeakhiker.org . If you wish to connect to the Website that is designed to cover all hiking, click on the live2hike.org link below. I also own and maintain that Website. The Hikers List is maintained as a common page to both Websites and can be reached on either site.
I have been asked to restore the older "interactive hike" of the Squaw Peak summit trail.. This was lost during the transfer of the Website back into my name after my short attempt to change Webmasters. It is now rebuilt. A little different but still an interactive page. I'd appreciate any ideas you wish to make. Just e-mail me. I am also in the process of building a new page. This page will have different photographs of Squaw Peak taken by other hikers as well as myself showing the peak from different angles and different times in history. Squaw Peak from all angles If anyone has any pictures they would like to submit, please send them to me. I only want pictures of the peak as a whole, not different segments.
We have added a new official section to the Website The section is “The Squaw Peak Regulars” . It consists of pages of hiker photographs by our official hiker photographer Janet Keyser. If you meet Janet on the trail and she asks if she can take your picture please let her do so. That way we can add your picture to others on the Webpage Thanks to all for allowing us to include all of you.
For those who are interested in the statistics of the Summit trail, its' length is 1.19 miles and the total elevation change is 1,208 feet starting at 1,400 feet. That averages out to a 19.22% grade. These statistics are from the parking lot trail head to the top only. The record time to the top is 14.32 minutes and the record consecutive trips to the top and back down is 12 in one day. None of those records were set by me! We do not encourage any statistics from the top down due to the danger of running down. Besides being bad on the knee joints running down is against the rules of good trail etiquette. Proper trail etiquette states that a hikers speed must be under good control when going down.
Larry Wayt, Webmaster
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