I have other pictures from my trip (which didn't make it to Jim on my first mailing), but they pretty much show what I've already showed, so there's no real point in piling on unless anyone really wants to see them.
Brian, I played other courses in Scottsdale during my trip with fairways that were just coming out of dormancy, but they looked and felt a lot better than AS! In truth, it wasn't difficult to find playable lies on the AS fairways, at least for someone who isn't desperate to nip the ball cleanly and get a lot of backspin with his irons, but I wouldn't want to kid myself and say that they were anything more than barely tolerable. What was really bad for me were the greens, which were so sandy that I could hit a driver into the par-3 17th and have it stick within a foot or two of where it landed. (That happened both times I played the hole, btw.) Now, I've played plenty of good courses which are typically well-maintained where they've topdressed the greens and they were sandy and exhibited similar characteristics, so I'm willing to write off my experiences on that front as a one-off - the greens at AS do have a pretty good reputation.
Anyway, I guess the real point is that the conditions are very variable at AS - on some trips you might get lucky and find the greens in excellent shape and the fairways at least borderline playable, on others you might not. There's plenty of interesting architecture to be found, so a lot of posters here will find a trip into the desert worth it, although the design isn't *that* interesting. (I read in another thread where someone praised AS strongly for being "perhaps Doak's most natural course", which to me falls somewhere between wishful thinking and outright self-denial - it's not like perfect maintenance would suddenly morph AS into Pacific Dunes or anything.) But to belatedly answer the Huckster's question, do NOT invite your pampered, non-GolfClubAtlas friends out to AS, because they'll absolutely hate it.
Cheers,
Darren