Las Vegas -- Fall 2000 Weekend Trip

October, 2000

The solitude and beauty of Red Rocks State Park lies in amazing contrast with the major departure city, Las Vegas. Most of these pictures are from a moderate (5.6/5.7) route called 'Cat in the Hat'.



The approach to the climb. The particular crag we climbed is the small cone-shaped formation in the middle of the picture:

A view of the route we took, along the ramp on the right, then up to the top of the 'pink-ish' slab near the top-left:

A closer view, you can see a party about 1/3 of the way up the route, in blue.