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The City should more strongly enforce staying on trails in the mountain preserves and look into creating higher fines in a buffer zone about 50-100 yards inside the preserve boundary to deter backyard personal "spur trails" from being created. The City should educate more on the hazards of going off trail at their trail heads.

The mountain preserves are beginning to look like an ant hill. This can be seen by observing old aerial photos with present day aerials. There are far too many non-designated "spur trails", "spider trails" or whatever you want to call them. There is no beauty in seeing scar trail after scar trail etched into the mountain preserves.

In addition, the City needs to implement the Scottsdale McDowell Mtn system of having all designated trail markers GPS'd and an identifying label placed on the trail markers that can be relayed to emergency personnel to assist in giving the hikers/user their gps location. So it works by, in a emergency situation, a hiker who has cell reception can give their coordinates to 911 by giving the nearest trail markers identifying mark. It works great for Scottsdale. Phoenix has slowly been implementing this, but a little too slow.