Valley of Fire

For Veterans day 2008 we went sightseeing to Valley of Fire State Park just Northeast of Las Vegas. It was a pretty dull drive out of town, and then we crested the small ridge into the park....and loh and behold we understood why the park was named "Valley of Fire." All of the large outcroppings of rock are a brilliant red reminding us of Sedona AZ. We drug along our long-time friend, Billy-Ray, to go rock climbing and geocaching.

Here are a few pictures of BR, Monty and Lebette as we climbed all over the rocks.




Then Monty and BR when after a cache up on top of one of the rocks...which led to Lebette trying to quell the anxious thoughts by taking several cool pictures of the rocks while we were gone. Due to limitations of my account with blogspot, here is only one of the photos.



Finally there are several pictures of the petroglyphs at Atlatl rock (Atlatl is a weapon using a stick with a socket to rest a spear for extended range). Unfortunately the park service has to put up a plexiglass wall so people won't add their 20th/21st century graffiti to the rock. The rock faces directly east and some have hypothesized the rock was used by locals 3,000 years ago to track the lunar eclipses.




BTW, we didn't find the cache on top of the hill, but not for a lack of trying/climbing/sightseeing from the top.

Go here if you want more info on the park, or to camp there amongst the beautiful red rocks (http://www.parks.nv.gov/vf.htm)