"A week after doing Kino peak with my buddy and brother, I took my girlfriend out on a hike in northern phoenix to Apache Peak. It was a beautiful spring hike with flowers blooming and the desert just looking very alive. Similarly to Kino Peak, I am writing this trip report a year and a half later haha. At the time, my girlfriend at the time and I were having a rough patch in our relationship and it was building up over the past couple of weeks. We were struggling to find things to do as a couple and our mutual interests were just non existent. It just felt like we both had nothing in common and it was creating a drift in our relationship. It was a 6 mile hike so about an hour or so into the hike while we were alone we decided to have a conversation about our relationship and I expressed how I felt and she expressed how she felt and we were both wondering if our relationship would last. We put the conversation on pause for now and decided to keep going on the hike and climb Apache peak. The hike itself was pretty straightforward. It all followed the trail through the Maricopa Trail over in the Anthem area and up to Apache Peak. At the peak, we logged the climb at the log box and..." — easotelo1 • Mar 16, 2024