Peg's Infamous Hikes in Indio

Peg decided to do some hiking with some of the folks here at Indian Waters. She took two trips. One to LaQuinta Cove and the other to Pushawalia Palms.

LaQuinta Cove was a four mile hike that traversed both level ground and some hilly climbs. Another woman on the hike, Jeannette, was not in very good shape and lagged behind the group. Peg chose to stay behind and walk with her. She stopped about half way into the hike and Peg continued with the rest. They saw some desert flowers in bloom and some cactus. At the stopping point of the hike was a beautiful golf course. What a little water can do in the desert!

Pushawalia Palms is on the top of a ridge and runs along near the San Andreas Fault. This area was mined for low-grade uranium during WWII. On the south side of the ridge are palm trees that follow the Fault line. They walked to the palm trees and found a stream of fast moving water there. You could also see calcium deposits and red iron deposits. There was even a 1940's truck, or what was left of it. After the palms the climb up a wash filled with boulders began! They saw arrow weed (used by Indians to make arrows), barrel cactus and cow scrapers. Some of the cow scrapers were starting to turn green from the rain we had a few days before.

A short distance from the truck they arrived in, Peg miss-stepped and took a tumble. She yelled "I'm going down" and down she went. She hit her left knee then rolled onto her right cheek and scratched her sunglasses. Everyone came running over to help, but she was okay...except for her ego! Her right eye had a shiner for over a week and she had several bruises! Glad she did not stumble on the ridge. This could have had a different ending!!