61.52 Nevada: Las Vegas: Rock scrambling outside of Red Rock Park...the ultimate in a dichotomy between Las Vegas and its premier park.
Love on the rocks and other delights...Jen wondering about the return route. "I wanna go higher"...big deal! When we head for Nevada, which has very attractive landscapes, we limit our risk taking to the climbs and boulder hopping rather than the dark, sleazy places. Each aspect of life has risk and while the priority is to avoid or certainly limit the downside, we sure have more control of our feet- and hand- placing, than of of our chips. In our first trip to Las Vegas, which occurred in December 1975, (we were a little younger then being all of 23 years old and probably wiser than we are today). We are grateful for a lesson well learned, and quickly, too, during a short period. We visited a casino and played roulette with $1 chips. We enjoyed some success. We returned to the hotel and calculated, based upon our system, that instead of using the lowest denomination chips, we should upgrade to the $5 level. Our system seemed a good one and we would ret...