Mount Charleston - Trail Canyon
Living at the North end of the Vegas Valley has its advantages. The Spring Mountains and Mount Charleston are a quick 30 minute drive away, dropping us at around 8,000ft and surrounded by pine forest and limestone canyons. Just in the last week or so we realized how accessible and awesome these canyons are!
They are close enough that I can shoot home from work on a weekday, grab Mollie and Nyah, a stove and a backcountry meal, hike uphill a few miles and be cooking in the solitude of a high altitude pine forest before 7pm at night. And that is exactly what we did last week. Thanks again to Mollie for the inspiration and motivation!
Of course, Nyah had a great time scouring the hillsides for chipmunks, birds, and whatever tasty smells she finds out there.
I’m ‘almost’ looking forward to the summer heat, knowing that we have this high altitude escape so close by. Oh yeah, and there are real trees up there….
