[sac-forum] Re: New Moon weekend

Steve Coe wrote:


So, I will end this email with my vote and that is Hovatter Road. If there is a general clamor to hold a star party in the Rim country at 5 Mile Meadow, then so be it. We do need to decide so that the portable toilet can be ordered. I await your input.



Being up here near the Cherry cite would make the drive closer, I think, to 5 Mile Meadow than Hovatter. However, the cold, dew, and mosquitoes(?) (they were landing on me last night at my place although I did not have a dew problem) would turn me away from 5 Mile Meadow. I may not go to Hovatter because of the distance, but it seems to be a better place from the standpoint of temperature, mosquitoes(?), and dew. I vote for Hovatter.
Stan


Hovatter Road “Antennas” site

North

This site is 100 miles from central Phoenix. Drive west on I-10 to the Hovatter Road exit; that is exit number 53. This is about 40 miles past the Palo Verde nuclear power plant. At the end of the off ramp, turn left over the freeway and drive over the canal and then the road takes a sharp right and the pavement ends at a “dead end” sign. Turn left at the sign and you will be headed directly toward some radio and cell phone antennas. After you pass the antennas the road takes a sharp right and makes its way through a wash or stream gulley; then the road levels off for half a mile before you pass into a second gulley. As soon as you come out of the second gulley the observing site is on your left. It is a large desert pavement that is exactly 2 miles from the I-10 freeway.


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