Hope the wrong people don't see this, but here goes. In the winter we work in the National Forest. The area we work in is on Lake Roosevelt. Through some strange series of events the area was developed when the dam was raised. 40 million dollars was set aside to do this around about 1990. Apparently they had so much money they could not figure out how to spend it all. So magnificent facilities were built. Among other things 1,300 very nice camp sites were developed, numerous deluxe boat ramps, solar showers, and on and on.
So yesterday we took off and went for a hike to see the air strip. The road to the air strip was locked so we hiked about a mile. There it was, a very nicely paved runway, 40ft wide and 3,400 feet long. Useless, but very usable. Back at the ranch Kadizzle looked up the air strip. The one in Hazen which is similar cost a couple million. You cannot use the facility without prior permission and planes are not allowed to practice there. Why?
When this recreation facility was built the idea was people would come from Phoenix in throngs to use it. One major consideration was overlooked. It is a bit of a distance. There is a solution. The Apache Trial along the Salt River is the quickest and most scenic way to get here. One major problem, it is a gravel treacherous road. So what do you do? Well you need to pave and fix that road.
Sadly this place is slowly being torn down and falling apart. Put this in the big picture where our mentally ill president wants to spend billions a couple hundred miles south of here to make his big wonderful wall. Insane is the only word that comes to mind.
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