Trail Heads and Parking A Mountain is by Tempe Town Lake and consequently, is the only hike I know about that is accessible by Light Rail. There is plenty of parking in and around Mill Avenue in Tempe but it can be dicey sometimes when events are on and Tempe's parking fills up. There are several trail heads around the mountains, so which ever side you park on it is no big deal to get to the summit trail.
Hike Distance Not very far. A quarter of mile maybe, maximum.
Hiking Time This is a small hike that a fit person can do fairly quickly. Ten or fifteen minutes is probably not uncommon.
Hike Elevation The summit is 1495 feet. The hike ascends 215 feet.
Hike Difficulty Easy. For a good work out it is necessary to do this hike multiple times or try and run it. This is a good ascent for casual hikers or hikers that only work out once or twice a week.
Trail Description The Leonard Monti Trail in the Hayden Butte Reserve is basically the access trail to the cell tower at the top of the mountain. The trail starts with a car width paved path and then changes to wooden and shale stairs about two thirds of the way up.
There are lookout points with seating on the way up. This hike gives a great view of Tempe, Downtown, the airport and the surrounding suburbs and mountains of Phoenix.
Trail Map 
A Mountain on Google Maps.
The Mill on Mill Avenue.
After the paved trail it turns into shale and gravel stairs.
Sun Devil Stadium seen from the summit of the Leonard Monti Trail.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
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,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
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.
