Petroglyphs

I saw some glyphs on Friday like I never seen before like the cowboy with the pack animal above...??? or the space alien. My favorite is the lizard...very cool. Remember petroglyphs are very special and the native artwork is very fragile ...Please don't touch even the oil on your fingers can have an effect on them, please just take pictures and enjoy.

Winter comes to Red Rock

...Good Stuff

Rain Tree Project, Mt Charleston Wilderness

Some folks go to the Mt Charleston Wilderness for enlightenment, others got there to get a from it all, some to esacape the summer heat or enjoy the winter snow, and some folks go there to build things, like wind structures, they're everywhere, on top of peaks, in windy saddles ( am I missing something???) or at the foot of one of the oldest if not the most famous tree in the Forest. Wind structures take away from the undeveloped character of the lands and cause damage to the resource. So fight that construction urge if you think you have to build stuff...go buy an erector set or some legos but please leave the Bristlecone alone. Even the stuff that's dead as door nail it could be 1000's old years old. Some wonderful volunteers from Friends of Nevada Wilderness went up to the Rain Tree and removed some of the downed Bristlecone from around the area where the Raintree holds court.

This ain't your Daddy's Wilderness, practice Leave No Trace...besides LNT a lot hipper than that old school camp craft stuff

Spirit Mountain

Last Light in Trail Canyon

Wee Thump

How's awesome is that 6,050 acres of some of the best Joshua Trees in the state protected in the Wee Thump-Joshua Tree Wilderness. I went out there Sunday for a hike and the light was moving across the landscape in waves due to the cloud cover...I swear some of them were dancing as if in a spotlight.

Wee Thump means ancient ones ...Good Stuff

Chilly Sunset

The Desert was calling to me today. I've spent the last couple days glue to the computer screen , all of it necessary in order to Keep it Wild...but I needed to get out. You know the feeling, the mind wanders, you think about hiking and getting outside ,the clock seems frozen. Anyway, I've been out to Wee Thump & Spirit Mountain and I'll get those images posted but here's I few I got on this chilly southern Nevada evening out on the Desert Refuge.