August 4, 2007
The Grab Elevation and Your Jacket Tour to Mt. Lemmon Pie!
Meeting Place: La Encantada Mall, Near AJ storehttp://www.laencantadashoppingcenter.com/directions.asp (thanks for the link - Keeper of the Kitties)
Time: the insane hour of 4AM to 4:15AM and then proceed up the hill. Some thing about sunrise pix? Others shall meet on the mound as their sleep deprevation allows.
Expect a 20-25 minute drive off I-10 to the Mall. It's pretty cake, hop off Ina Road, and keep on it until you see the mall to your left. (You will actually pass one mall, the Foothills Mall). Once you hit Oracle, the road will then turn into Sunrise, again, the mall will be on your left before you hit Campbell. If you miss the turn, no worries. Make a left North onto Campbell and itll take you to the mall as well.
The drive from the mall up the mountain would be roughly another hour, no matter whether we get up a BFE in the morning or later in the day. There's just more slow traffic heading up the mountain mid-morning.
By the way, the mall has an AJ's for those wanting a quick bite to eat for breakfast.
Keeper of Kitties supplied linkies!
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/index.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_Highway
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/for...lina_hwy.shtml
http://www.pbase.com/manzico/catalina_highway
Signed up:
In attendance:
Funny happenings, aka trip report:
54 was busy getting shots for the Queen of Poop so she would know we were thinking of her, besides, some fly and bee were making a visit to the object he was shooting. Following the departure of 54 and Jennifer, we wandered up to the ski area and had a very nice breakfast of eggs, hash browns, fruit, bratwurst and strudle, yummy water and very weak coffee. The emperor was not eating so the waiter brought him an empty plate so he would not feel left out.
Favorite pix for the event: