This is a wonderful area for hiking just because of the terrain for one thing, the quality of the air makes it a great hiking area and of course there is a lot of bicycling. A lot of people come down for that in February and March. We could sometimes have groups of 30 or 40 to a couple of hundred people. It's such a good area and there are quite a bit of roads to ride on that are bike friendly and that's the two things that come to my mind immediately. I suppose I should tell you about the Lavender Pit. The reason it's called that is the gentleman who started developing it, his last name was Lavender. So the Lavender Pit Mine is the largest and deepest open pit mine. It's not active any more, but it's got a huge viewing area and it is right off of highway 80, which is about half a mile from where I am sitting. People can stop and take a lot of pictures and so on. The pit itself is an area of 300 acres and if you are interested in geology, come and get the information because it's quite technical. It is very interesting to see how they actually got the copper out of there. For instance, when they were blasting this to get in the mine, they said the blast commonly broke about 75,000 tons of rock. And this was back before the days where they had big trucks. A lot of this was done by hand.
