http://www.takeahikearizona.com/phoenix-parks-closures Experience Explore Enjoy Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:56:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://www.takeahikearizona.com/phoenix-parks-closures/comment-page-1#comment-37 Glenn Osborne Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:37:16 +0000 http://www.takeahikearizona.com/?p=234#comment-37 This stinks! Why not lay of some office workers instead, How about some 6 figure income management? Parks are a basic right to the citizens of the city, as they belong to all of us. To deny the public access to them is just plain wrong. The parks and preserves are one of the few good things this city has to offer. I hike in the Phoenix mountains every day of the week and I have not seen a ranger patrolling the trails in years anyway. This stinks! Why not lay of some office workers instead, How about some 6 figure income management? Parks are a basic right to the citizens of the city, as they belong to all of us. To deny the public access to them is just plain wrong. The parks and preserves are one of the few good things this city has to offer. I hike in the Phoenix mountains every day of the week and I have not seen a ranger patrolling the trails in years anyway.

]]> http://www.takeahikearizona.com/phoenix-parks-closures/comment-page-1#comment-34 Melissa Branta Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:25:12 +0000 http://www.takeahikearizona.com/?p=234#comment-34 I will speak on behalf of Camelback Mtn seeing that it is the mtn that I hike 3-4 days a week and have made this mtn a home away from home. I have set some pretty intense goals up on this mtn having hiked it last year 12 times in a row and to even hear that it may be closed down for 2 days of the week saddens me beyond belief. The majority of my friends hike this mtn and I even met my boyfriend up on Camelback (echo side). For the sake of fitness enthusiasts and those of us who hold this mtn so sacred to our souls, please consider us locals when thinking of closing down this wonderful outlet for so many people. My question to you is HOW can you really keep people OFF the mtn even if you do close it 2 days a week? Will you then be paying for a guard or ranger to stand at it's entrance because with the budget cuts that would not make sense. Would you have police or security standing guard to keep loyal hikers off the land? Please, please reconsider this decision and hear my voice (just one) of us many! Thanks! Melissa Branta and Jack "Camelback Jack"Dunn I will speak on behalf of Camelback Mtn seeing that it is the mtn that I hike 3-4 days a week and have made this mtn a home away from home. I have set some pretty intense goals up on this mtn having hiked it last year 12 times in a row and to even hear that it may be closed down for 2 days of the week saddens me beyond belief.
The majority of my friends hike this mtn and I even met my boyfriend up on Camelback (echo side). For the sake of fitness enthusiasts and those of us who hold this mtn so sacred to our souls, please consider us locals when thinking of closing down this wonderful outlet for so many people. My question to you is HOW can you really keep people OFF the mtn even if you do close it 2 days a week? Will you then be paying for a guard or ranger to stand at it’s entrance because with the budget cuts that would not make sense. Would you have police or security standing guard to keep loyal hikers off the land? Please, please reconsider this decision and hear my voice (just one) of us many!
Thanks! Melissa Branta and Jack “Camelback Jack”Dunn

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