Up Mount Ord

The second highest mountain around here is Mount Ord. Of course Winky wants to go up it. We are back a our base camp and will move the Earth Module in a few days up to the White Mountains. Mount Ord was once used in the Indian wars as a message point of the old fashioned devices they used to signal with the sun. Kadizzle cannot remember the name of the device, but it could be used to send a message from Flagstaff to Tombstone in 45 minutes. It was crucial in the defeat of the Apaches. Winky just came in the door and reminded Kadizzle it was called a Heliograph.  Look it up the history is interesting. The ebikes will hopefully take  us the six miles up the mountain. The ebikes are charging. Winky cannot stand still and a trip up that mountain should wear us both out. Cliff is pulling his fifth wheel up to his home in the White Mountains. We had a nice drive back from there yesterday. There is some wonderful country, but also some serious urban sprawl and professional slumming. Kadizzle had no idea how big a population was living up in that area.  A lot of summer homes. People trying to escape the heat in Phoenix. Why people have to accumulate trash?