This year for Valentine's we decided to spend time together with a nice date night and then outside in the wonderful winter Vegas weather. Since Valentine's Day was on Sunday this year, we went out Friday night to our favorite Chinese restaurant, Cook on Wok. Afterwards, Travis was so sweet and let me pick a movie to go see, which of course was a romantic comedy, Valentine's Day. Very cute movie. He always lets me pick the movies we see! He's so sweet.
Then on Saturday we slept in and later headed out for a hike to the Arizona Hot Springs. There were 2 trails to take at the trail head-one to the Colorado river, and one to the hot springs. We meant to go to the hot springs but ended up on the White Rock Canyon Trail to the river. The trail of course is in a wash with lots of sand, so the hike out was killer! It's nothing steep, just a steady incline for 3.5 on the way out. So we hiked a little over 7 miles that afternoon! Lily was a trooper! She wasn't tired one bit! Well, we all were beat when we got back to the car, but she kept truckin the whole way.
So at the end of the trail was the gorgeous Colorado river which Lily took a quick dip in. The trail also led to a small waterfall where a ladder use to be positioned giving access to the hot springs. But since there was no ladder, we just got to experience the warm humid water fall instead.
At the mouth of the narrow canyon to the waterfall was a huge camp of tons of kayakers and canoers. Looked like they boated from Willow Beach upstream to this camp and brought all sorts of gear to spend the night. There were all sorts of different groups of people, some even had dogs! My guess is that there were over 100 people there. It was nuts. But it was the perfect weekend to do something like that. There was no wind and the weather was gorgeous!
Then on Saturday we slept in and later headed out for a hike to the Arizona Hot Springs. There were 2 trails to take at the trail head-one to the Colorado river, and one to the hot springs. We meant to go to the hot springs but ended up on the White Rock Canyon Trail to the river. The trail of course is in a wash with lots of sand, so the hike out was killer! It's nothing steep, just a steady incline for 3.5 on the way out. So we hiked a little over 7 miles that afternoon! Lily was a trooper! She wasn't tired one bit! Well, we all were beat when we got back to the car, but she kept truckin the whole way.
So at the end of the trail was the gorgeous Colorado river which Lily took a quick dip in. The trail also led to a small waterfall where a ladder use to be positioned giving access to the hot springs. But since there was no ladder, we just got to experience the warm humid water fall instead.
At the mouth of the narrow canyon to the waterfall was a huge camp of tons of kayakers and canoers. Looked like they boated from Willow Beach upstream to this camp and brought all sorts of gear to spend the night. There were all sorts of different groups of people, some even had dogs! My guess is that there were over 100 people there. It was nuts. But it was the perfect weekend to do something like that. There was no wind and the weather was gorgeous!
So on our way out, Travis of course spotted a big horn sheep on the canyon cliffs above. There are just tons of sheep that live in the cliffs near the Hoover Dam. As we were hiking out I was reflecting on last year's Valentine's adventure and remembered that we also hiked to some hot springs that year as well, and come to think of it, our first Valentine's Day together we did the same thing! It's just a good time of year to good hiking, especially in Southern Nevada.
