> Just for a note re: stuff that should be on a map and isn't...my house or rather my neighborhood doesn't exist on many maps...wonder when it will?? And I'm

> "downtown Phx".

Prescott/Chino Valley is the other way around. The area, as Trisha so presciently observed, has all kinds of mapped roads that don’t exist. I found several of them on Saturday. I was able to get within .75 mile of the Field Day site from the west, but could not get to it, even on foot, without crossing posted property. And therein lies the rub. Many of the roads shown in Topo, S&T, etc., that are north and west of Prescott, are private roads. Most, though not all, allow public passage, but “at your own risk”.

Let me tell you a bit about what “at your own risk” means up there. I was driving on a graded unpaved road, trying to head east, when I came across a washout. The road had simply collapsed. In the washout was a small passenger car, the roof of which was level with where the road used to be. I’m hardly expert in such things, but looking at it, I can’t imagine that vehicle could be winched out, as the walls were near vertical. I just turned around and headed back to pavement.

Steve

Team Tierra Buena