On January 15-18 Linda and I camped at the White Tank Mountain Regional Park, located on the west side of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The campsites were spacious. Linda enjoyed gravel bike riding and hiking locally and I hiked prominence peaks west of Phoenix.
Barry Goldwater Peak
One of the white tanks below the Mesquite Canyon Trail
The White Tank Mountains consist of a series of numerous rocky fault ridges and deep canyons. During heavy rainfall water has scoured out a number of depressions or “tanks” in the white granite in canyons near the base of the mountains. These white tanks are the source of the name of this range.
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