March
24
Went hiking at South Mountain Park, supposedly the largest city park in the country at 17,000 acres. It's really gorgeous and seems to be only lightly used, at least on a weekday. We saw a helicopter acting strangely and think it may have been airlifting horses from one site to another on the mountain, although it was hard to tell even with the binoculars. We hiked near the peak where all the antennae are. Handy to have tall landforms around; we here in the Midwest have to actually *build* places for our antennae.
Went hiking at South Mountain Park, supposedly the largest city park in the country at 17,000 acres. It's really gorgeous and seems to be only lightly used, at least on a weekday. We saw a helicopter acting strangely and think it may have been airlifting horses from one site to another on the mountain, although it was hard to tell even with the binoculars. We hiked near the peak where all the antennae are. Handy to have tall landforms around; we here in the Midwest have to actually *build* places for our antennae.
 South Mountain Park, and the antennae peak |
 View from Dobbin's Lookout, facing north |
 Along an unofficial trail beginning at Gila Valley |
After
South Mountain, we went to Sonic Drive-in for lunch, then headed to
Mesa to see the Cubs vs. the A's at HoHoKam Park. Since we didn't
get there early enough, the good lawn seats were mostly taken, but we
found a nice spot in right-center. Cubs won 5-2 - Rusch started,
and Barrett hit a solo homer (which came nowhere near us).
