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***NEXT CLUB EVENTS***
Our next club event September 11th, is
an evening with the telescopes and observatory on Mt. Lemmon’s tip-top, but
there are things to do on the mountain before the evening hours. Before I
tell you more, there is one important item. This event is open only to
pre-registered members and guests.
Unlike our other events, we cannot
allow last-minute show-ups to be included. There is a definite limit
to how many visitors may participate due to limited space.
You must contact Julia Olsen-Peterson at (520)241-6205 to register.
The Iron Door Restaurant is a good spot for lunch, but it usually has a
lunch wait-time Saturdays. The food is really good and the wait-staff is
friendly. I really recommend the chili and corn-bread! That’s worth the trip
up the mountain in itself! The pie-lady business in Summerhaven is gone, the
owner died last year or the year before, and the building is no longer
there, so don’t go to Summerhaven for that, but there is a Pizza Place, and
it’s further down the road from the Summerhaven Community Center, you just
have to look for it. I can’t recommend it, since I haven’t eaten there, but
that might be worth a try.
If
you get up the mountain early enough, you can buy a lift-ticket and take the
ski-lift to the top of the slopes and look over both sides to the valleys
below. It’s a little, relatively easy, hike down the Aspen Ridge Trail, but
that is through some well-shaded scenery, and it only takes about 45 minutes
to an hour to get back to the parking lot.
There’s no $5 user-fee required for parking in any of the following:
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Summerhaven merchant’s lots
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the ski-lift parking lot
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Iron-Door Restaurant parking lot.
The $5 user-fee is going to be necessary if you
are parking in any area that is public domain, such as the picnic areas, the
back-roads or the parking lots near the trail-heads. Please be sure to check
if you are in doubt. The passes for National Parks and Monuments will allow
you to park in those areas
if you display the pass in your
windshield. The park service personnel regularly patrol and write
tickets for cars without a pass.
So, there you have it, some things to do on the mountain before we meet.
Remember you have to pre-register for this event.
Our
newsletter in September will detail the Pacific-Zone Las Vegas driving
weekend (page 8), Tucson’s Classic Car Show, and Cops & Rodders Car Show
(all in October), as well as the November Madera Park picnic..
*** There are also future and out-of-town events posted on the Google Calendar, above.***
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