How those colors including Turtlehead in the background and my cute tortoise in the foreground?
Jen is about to enter a slot canyon which is part of Kraft Mountain.
Jen is about to enter a slot canyon which is part of Kraft Mountain.
After spending ten days in the Las Vegas region, more to come and fewer days to have arrived at the conclusion that follows, it would be difficult to select a more colorful, inviting, better rock-climbing and scrambling location. It's also uncomfortable for us to use the word beautiful and Las Vegas in the same context, even the same sentence. Fortunately, when we talk of the beauty of Las Vegas, it is the surround, definitely not the city or strip.
Having got that off the chest (not for the first time), cleared the air, taken a few deep breaths, we are soon heading for the eastern side, that's on the border with Arizona...did we mention another favorite place? Okay, okay, let a guy express himself...even ad nauseum. The other side includes additional desert and for dessert supreme, Lake Mead and the Colorado River. 'Meed' we say more...should be 'need'.
One improvises to avoid water, muddy and very sandy parts as well as deal with finding a way up-and-over boulders or around difficult and uncomfortable situations confronting us on our way through the canyon. It can be thrilling as well as tough.
Jenni scampers along the boulders after coming out of the canyon.
Water in the desert, far from the Colorado River. An example of negotiating through a slot canyon.
Perhaps the toughest move in a while as one has to bring the legs over the obstacles with 'gripping support' from smooth walls while not clicking the hip out of joint.
You can look at beauty all day, but you have to act, too.
From canyon depths to mountain highs, the colors stun.
Jenni on trail with Turtlehead behind, a peak we reached a couple of days later.
Cheers,
Jenni scampers along the boulders after coming out of the canyon.
Water in the desert, far from the Colorado River. An example of negotiating through a slot canyon.
Perhaps the toughest move in a while as one has to bring the legs over the obstacles with 'gripping support' from smooth walls while not clicking the hip out of joint.
You can look at beauty all day, but you have to act, too.
From canyon depths to mountain highs, the colors stun.
Jenni on trail with Turtlehead behind, a peak we reached a couple of days later.
Cheers,
Jenni and Jeffrey
Sunrise: Focus on the spot.
From Red Mountain, Boulder City.
A night-view from the distant mountains.
Sunrise on the strip viewed from Black Mountain, Boulder City, some 25 miles away.
From Red Mountain, Boulder City.
A night-view from the distant mountains.
Sunrise on the strip viewed from Black Mountain, Boulder City, some 25 miles away.
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