Trail Heads and Parking The trail head is located at Cholla Lane off Invergordon. There is no parking on Cholla Lane and most people park on Invergordon Road to the south of Cholla Lane. There is ample parking there but you have to walk a fair way to the trail head.
Hike Distance 1.5 miles
Hiking Time Experienced and fit hikers can do it in under thirty minutes. For most leisurely hikers expect to take an hour to the summit.
Hike Elevation 2,704 feet. The ascent is 1,200 feet.
Hike Difficulty Difficult. Nowhere near as strenuous as
Echo Canyon though and an easier hike if you want to get Camelback's summit.
Trail Description The Cholla Trail climbs around the spine of eastern Camelback. It is a pretty hike with plenty of good views to the south, east and north. With Echo Canyon you end up hemmed in rocky canyons as you climb. Cholla Route is more scenic because the trail follows the ridge of the mountain.
There is a saddle about half way through the ascent to the summit with good views to the south. Many people stop here and descend again. It is a good work out to the saddle.
After the saddle the climbing becomes more rocky and increasingly difficult. The final section requires picking your way over some rocks to get to the summit. The trail in this area can be confusing but the trail was recently marked with blue paint to point out the path.
This hike is less strenuous than Echo Canyon and a fun one to do if you want a more leisurely, but still difficult, hike to the summit of Camelback. For this reason it is a popular hike and always has a lot of people on it.
Trail Map 
Cholla Route hike to the Camelback Summit
on Google maps. More on
Echo Canyon and Camelback.
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Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
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Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
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Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
