Magazine 2

And look who's on the cover of this
month's Young Model magazine!

Magazine

Look who made the cover of Kitty
magazine!

Fans

Even the buses are Cards fans!

Merkle/Vista Trail

Due to time constraints and the cool weather we've hiked the Merkle/Vista Trail at Usery Park the last couple of days. It's one of our favorite short hikes. We can do it in half an hour and still enjoy great views and a decent work out. Here's a couple of pictures from yesterday's hike.

	Karen on the Vista Trail. The hill in front of her is the top of the Vista Trail. The mountain with the light colored line of rocks across its face is Pass Mountain.
	Karen and Ross's sister Lee at our Xterra in the parking area for the Merkle/Vista Trails.

Papago Park

A couple of days ago we visited Papago Park in Phoenix for the first time. It's in the same area as the Phoenix Zoo and the Desert Botanical Garden, both of which we have visited in the past. Ross's sister Lee came with us. The park has quite a few hiking trails but the most interesting is the Hole In The Rock Trail. The hike is up a large rock formation to a hole that has been eroded in it. For such a short hike (less than 1/4 mile and about 200' elevation gain) the views at the top are very good. After that hike we hiked out and back along one of the flatter trails. Next time we visit the park we may bring our bikes as all the trails except for the Hole In The Rock Trail are bike accessible.

	The Hole In The Rock at Papago Park in Phoenix. Note the people on top of the rock formation. You have to do some off trail scrambling to get there. We didn't go up there.
	Karen at the hole and the view from the top of the hike.