Another spectacular hike with John and the Red Rock Hiking group
A hike in the Gold Butte National Monument area, with John and the Red Rock Hiking Meetup group. Lots of very spectacular vistas and geological features.
The sand dunes were frozen, and much easier to walk on. Unless you expected to sink down, in which case you'd fall (a couple people did).
Lots of petroglyphs
Fascinating little natural pillar of rock
And another...
Echinocactus polycephalus
Barrel cactus
The UFO landing pad, where we had lunch
This cactus seemed very similar to prickly pear, but towards the base, the spines got almost hair-like.
More petroglyphs
Beautiful sand dunes
These "sticks" of sandstone were emerging from the base rock, and could be picked up