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canyonwalkerNon-Vegas Vegas Weekend Travelog #6
Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Sat, 15 Feb 2025, 2:30pm
The Owl Canyon Loop hike at Lake Mead NRA has been a great hike. We started with exploring atop a bluff down in the canyon where we found seashells and gypsum deposits left from a flood over 40 years ago. Then we took a slight detour to the Slot Canyon River Rapids. After that we hiked up through the narrows of an unnamed canyon. It's a good hike already... and it's only about half done!
We topped out of the unnamed canyon, crossed the main road through the park, then continued through a wash to... another road? Yes, there's another road here. An abandoned road. One that's not even marked on the topo map we're following!
The topo map shows that our loop follows in the direction of the road for about half a mile, so we hiked it over the hill and down the far side. There we saw the next canyon our route descends into. At first it looked like we'd have to drop into the canyon then climb back out to the cross the road... but at the bottom of the canyon were a pair of tunnels under the road almost 100' below the surface. And they were haunted tunnels! 😱 Watch the video to see (or hear!) what I mean.
More to come....
Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Sat, 15 Feb 2025, 2:30pm
The Owl Canyon Loop hike at Lake Mead NRA has been a great hike. We started with exploring atop a bluff down in the canyon where we found seashells and gypsum deposits left from a flood over 40 years ago. Then we took a slight detour to the Slot Canyon River Rapids. After that we hiked up through the narrows of an unnamed canyon. It's a good hike already... and it's only about half done!
We topped out of the unnamed canyon, crossed the main road through the park, then continued through a wash to... another road? Yes, there's another road here. An abandoned road. One that's not even marked on the topo map we're following!
The topo map shows that our loop follows in the direction of the road for about half a mile, so we hiked it over the hill and down the far side. There we saw the next canyon our route descends into. At first it looked like we'd have to drop into the canyon then climb back out to the cross the road... but at the bottom of the canyon were a pair of tunnels under the road almost 100' below the surface. And they were haunted tunnels! 😱 Watch the video to see (or hear!) what I mean.
More to come....
