Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Caves at Red Rock Nevada

Exploring caves is fun.

My friends Ben and Justin where coming to visit for a while and we thought it would be fun find some caves that I heard about in Red Rock. Unfortunately I am not going to say the exact location of the caves because over the years they have received much damage from visitors. There is a lot of trash and spray paint all over the walls and floor. So, in order to preserve what is left of them I don't want to be responsible for sending many other people there.

I will say that if you are planning a trip to Red Rock, their location can be found elsewhere on the Internet and judging by the amount of spray paint on the walls there are quite a few people from Las Vegas that know about them as well. Enough of my rambling though, lets get to the trip.




The trail to the caves

There was a very nice trail that took us most of the way there. The trail is actually where they take people horse back riding around the area.



View Back Toward The Road (almost to the caves)


Closer To The Cave

It was all an easy trail up till about this point. We knew the caves where around that area. But we didn't know exactly where. But, whats the point of exploring if you know where your going. Unfortunately the exploring let us up a cliff. It wasn't anything you need rope to climb, but it wasn't completely safe ether.


Justin Before we climbed


On The Way Up


(Ben, Me, Justin, Natalie) Close To The Entrance of one of the Caves

We finally found both caves. The photos are a mix between both. One of the was basically one large room. While the other drops down several times and had many rooms. It only went back and down though so it was impossible to get lost.


Entrance To Cave


Ben, Me, Natalie Eating Lunch in Cave


Inside cave

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One interesting thing we found was that when you hold a black light up to the rocks in the cave, little speckles glow on them.


That image is also a good example of how dark it is in a cave without lights.

You can see what I mean about the spray paint. It really detracts from the cave. We did manage to get all of our cave exploring in before the sun went down.


Right outside the cave

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My Ranting Note:

If you do visit a cave or anything in nature I stress once again as I have before, Please take you trash with you. And try your best not to F#!k up the place with a can of spray paint, no matter how much self control you have to exhibit at the time! Thank you.

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