Red Rock

In a weekend dedicated to wedding dress shopping, we found a short time to take a break in order to go for a hike. Jacqueline's parents, Jacqueline, nor I had ever been to Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas. We also did not have a good map to get us there, so looking out on the horizon, I said, "those rocks look red", so we headed for those rocks. It ended up being the right road, so when we got to their visitor center, I decided once again that it would be really nice to own my own National Park. It would be especially nice right outside of Vegas considering their visitor center was much nicer than ours at Zion. We were able to pick a hike to do after looking at their list. All of the hikes seemed rather short and rated at moderate. We did the tourist thing getting to our hike where we stopped at the side of the road to get pictures. You definitely have to do that the first time that you visit somewhere, so it was kind of fun to be tourists once again. We made it to our trailhead after not too long of being tourists. We chose Ice Box Canyon because it looked like there may be less people on that trail. There were only seven cars at the trailhead instead of twenty-five. The trail looked like it was good for the first quarter mile or so and then it became rather rough. It was tough at times for Ginny, Jacqueline's mom, to scramble over some of the boulders in the trail. She found a nice shady spot to wait for Jacqueline, Tom (Jacqueline's dad), and I to finish our hike. Soon, the whole canyon was in the shade. We made it a fair bit of the way up the canyon before deciding that was enough for the day. It made Jacqueline and I want to come back at a later date and do as many of the hikes as possible. There were many short trails in Red Rock waiting for us to explore them. On this weekend, though, we headed back to prepare Jacqueline for her wedding dress shopping extravaganza.