When our friend and "lake" neighbour Joan called and asked if we were interested in walking the Waterfall Trail at White Tank Mountain South West of Phoenix, we couldn't pass up the opportunity. She and her sister Mary had been hiking the trails around Phoenix almost every day for the past week and were planning one last outing before heading back to Alberta. We decided to tag along.
Trailhead sign.
Yvonne, Mary and Joan.
Joan's nephew William and niece Susan met us on the trail.
We covered around 3.8 miles today.
We spotted these unusual makings on the granite rocks near the trail.
The petroglyphs were scratched out by the Hohokam Indian tribe thousands of years ago and can still be seen on numerous boulders along trail.
This section of the trail is relatively easy to navigate.
Note the steps just ahead of Joan and Yvonne.
The waterfall only flows after heavy rainfall, however thousands of years of rainfall and resulting floodwaters have washed out depressions or "tanks" in the white granite rocks, thus the name of the mountains and the waterfall canyon.
Another day trip comes to an end.
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