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Tough Love

By Steve Jansen

Published on January 09, 2008 at 4:00am

Enough with these weenie two-mile leisure walks through the desert. The Cholla Mountain Loop Hike at McDowell Mountain Regional Park will kick your freaking ass. The four-hour gauntlet is an eight-mile jaunt filled with peaks, valleys, and thigh-burning switchbacks. Meet up with other macho men and women at Alma School Road north of Dynamite Boulevard in Scottsdale.
Sat., Jan. 12, 8:30 a.m., 2008