Sunday 22 September 2024
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Sunday 22 September - !!! Brett's Birthday !!!
The Flight out and car rental
So, we flew out of Cincinnati to Las Vegas on my birthday. Since we were both taking a week's worth of clothing, and I needed all my hiking gear (poles, backpack, water filtration, camera gear, etc.) we had a lot of gear to take. So much, in fact, that we could not ride with the Trenaman's to the airport, our trunk and part of the back seat were full of just our gear.
- CVG -> LAS Delta DL2915 7:10 am -> 9:15 am
- [National Rental Car mini van (folding 3rd row seat and all captain's chairs) in Vegas
- Reservation for Sunday at Circus Circus hotel and casino
Once we were on the ground in Vegas and grabbed our luggage, we took the shuttle bus to the (offsite!) rental car facility and got our van. We made a quick stop at Smith's (a Kroger brand) to get distilled water for my CPAP and some drinking water (and a few snacks for the non-keto in the group) for the various hikes we planned to do before and after getting to Grand Canyon. Since we arrived at about 9, we had our baggage and were at [National] about 10 am.
Red Rock Canyon
We couldn't check into the hotel until after (like 3 pm), we drove from Vegas directly to Red Rock Canyon. Red Rock is due west of Vegas about 20 miles, and has several shorter day hikes and a nice drive-through path for seeing the various colored rock formations. It's handy that the same "America the Beautiful" National Parks pass that gets you into Grand Canyon also works here.
Since Elizabeth had not been training for the hike, I planned to mostly drive through the park, and only do one or two of the shorter and less strenuous hikes.