Valley of Fire

On a hot and gorgeous day in the beginning of July the team at Las Vegas Hiking Adventures embarked on another great journey into the beauty that is Valley of Fire. 

Tour guide "Hawk" led 3 New York visitors and 4 New Mexico residents from their Las Vegas hotel accommodations via our van "Tumbleweed" on a half day excursion.

Goblin Cave, Valley of Fire

We headed out at 7am leaving the smoke filled casinos and the sleepy party goers behind and hit the 15 freeway towards freedom and quietness of the desert. We arrived at the entrance of Valley of Fire in time to enjoy the sun reflecting it's early morning glow off the Aztec Sand Stone and petrified dunes.

Our first stop was at the "Beehive's" where we discussed the sand formations and thousands of years of weathers perfecting movements.


Back into "Tumbleweed" and the gorgeous journey through the valley and we visited Petroglyph Canyon. The canyon is filled with the etchings of those who came before us and their attempts to tell the stories of family, hunting, and the words of the Shamans. We heard stories of a Anasazi "Mouse" who fled the law of his time for accused murder and hid amongst the rocks surviving the heat by using a natural forming water Tank. The hike was more then scenic, it was informative and breath taking.

Back on the road we traveled further into the beauty and stopped for a few minutes at Overlook point to bask in the beauty of the Red Rocks and appreciate where we had been and where we were going...
With "Tumbleweed" again parked and ideal we stepped into our next stop at "Fire Wave" where we got a first hand glimpse of the geology of millions of years where the sea bed had come to lie and the mountains shifted. The colors of time sat one on top of the other to tell the story of slow but constant movement.

One more hike to take, this time to "White Dome" which allowed us to view what Hollywood movie makers had been filming for well over a century. We scrambled over a few hillsides and ended up in some magnificent Narrows which gave us the opportunity to realize our smallness in natures painting.
The last stop on the tour was at the parks visitor center, where ice cream was purchased by all and a few t-shirts grabbed for bragging rights.



As we finished our day and headed back to the noise and lights of the city of Las Vegas internal batteries were charged and the trip of lifetime mentally saved and logged in our minds.....

If you would like to experience adventures like this with a professional hiking guide in the Las Vegas area, Contact, Las Vegas Hiking Adventures today!!

Las Vegas Hiking Adventures
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Las Vegas, NV. 

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