[AZ-Observing] Re: I'll never return to KOFA--I promise!
- From: "Jack Jones" <spicastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:43:03 -0700
I found the brochure and found the prohibition, on the back of two tons
of other regulations in the subsection on camping. We weren't more than
100 ft off the dirt road or right at it for observing, but not by
design. We did explore the other side of the road which was a
well-traveled dirt two-track looping back about 1/4 mile, whoops. We
were concerned mostly with the rock collecting regulations, no more than
10 rocks or 10 pounds whichever came first, it said.
I suppose I would go there again, being the darkest of places, showing
solid black on the Sky Clock webpage light pollution graph. Other sites
show as blue or borderline blue/black.
Jack Jones
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Lunar List Awards and
Messier Marathon Co-coordinator
Phoenix AZ
spicastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Steve Coe wrote in part:
>
> >About 5:00 in the afternoon the ranger showed up and informed me that
I
> >had my vehicle more than 100 feet away from the graded dirt road and
that
> >I should have stopped at the signboard when I drove onto the KOFA
range
> >and picked up a pamphlet that informed me of the rules. At which
point
> >she wrote me a misdemeanor ticket to the tune of $150 and told me if
I
> >wanted to fight the ticket that the court for this district is in
> >Yuma.....just ask for a court date. So, I told her.....nevermind. I
> >moved to another site that was not on the KOFA range.
>
> My sympathies to Steve. Many have been finding out the Forest Service
and
> Rangers are NOT your friends.
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