Red Rock Day Off Trip Photo Essay

So, feeling like this after I busted the Main Event:

I decided to go touch the mountains, that for the last few years I've only looked at from the windows of the Rio, way off in the distance under a haze.

We headed to the Red Rock Mountains.  So named because the iron in the rocks have oxidized red.

Red.

Went Hiking.

In and around the mountains.

Saw some big vistas.

And little critters:

Little Hands:

Plant life:

Hidden streams:

Natural Monoliths:

Trees:

Trees:

Trees:

Big Critters:

Teeny, tiny, hidden chip 'n dale critters (look by the tree):

Sunbathers:

Mine shafts:

People:

Lichen:

Old West balconies:

Melting Mountains:

Mining Towns:

Old Wagons:

More ranges:

Soaring Opera:

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