Las Vegas
October 10, 2004
We were in Vegas for Jimmy's hockey tournament and instead of going to the Strip, we decided to go to Red Rock Canyon and do a little geocaching. Lun and Melani were with us and I'm pretty sure they enjoyed the hike more than exploring Las Vegas Bouevard. Happily, the temperatures were in the low 80's - still fairly hot, but comfortable enough for a mile hike round trip to see some awesome pictographs and views of the desert that can be appreciated - remember, we're mostly desert-haters! ;) Check out our other pictures from this trip.
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link to the geocaching website This find was sooo cool!! I can't remember ever seeing actual pictographs before, so seeing authenticated Native American ones totally blew me away! It was almost hard to believe that they were real. We wondered how they survived the elements all of these years. The hike wasn't very long, perhaps 1/3 of a mile or so. It was hot, but not overbearing, so the short trek wasn't bad at all. Looking back at the strip definitely made us realize that we made a good choice to do some geocaching instead of exploring casinos. |
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The trail up to the pictographs |
Notice authenticating the site and answer to the cache |
Interesting Pictographs |
Jimmy and the Yuen's check out the pictographs |
Group photo |
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Looking up the canyon |
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Desert Vegetation |
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Our Log:
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link to the geocaching website This was an easy find because our car was right next to the gate! |
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Brownstone Gate |
Jimmy finds the cache |
Lun and Melani read the log |
Our Log:
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