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Nevada Hiking Trip Report

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Filed By:  ERNEL ARCANGEL FELIX (Santa Cruz-Monterey, CA)  Number of People Encountered:  50+ ppl Recommend to a Friend:  Highly Report:  Many times I have been to the city as many people called the " Sin City " both for business and for fun. The most recent time I was in Las Vegas was on December 29, 2005, on my return back home from my recently concluded Utah trip. A night of stay made my trip with extra fun. Now was all about fun-filled experience due to human creation, technology, and intervention with nature. On the other hand, fun in Utah was all about natural wonders and preservation. Las Vegas came into the scene after driving about 2 hours southwest from Hurricane and St. George, Utah shortly after passing the mountainous side of Arizona. Dec 29 was the best time of the year in Vegas - for one not experience the city's unbearable heat (98s at midnight during summer). It was a very pleasant day and night, as a matter of fact, windbreaker and sc

Kansas Hiking

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Description  - Where can you find dinosaur bones, moon rocks, award-winning elderberry wine , great works of art, and the perfect fishing hole? Where can you see bison grazing on open prairie that still bears the deeply cut grooves of pioneer wagon wheels? Where can you discover all of this and more in one place? Where else but Kansas. Experience the great outdoors in its natural state. Explore the legacy of the western frontier. View some of the most unspoiled and diverse ecosystems in the country. Hunt and fish for a variety of pursuits and at a variety of locations in Kansas. Find regional creativity displayed alongside internationally acclaimed exhibits in Kansas' art centers and museums. Share a real farm and ranch experience with your family or learn what inspired people to defy the laws of nature and take flight. Best inexpensive folding bike Attractions  - A few miles from the Colorado border is the high point of the state, Mt. Sunflower, which reaches 4,039 fe

Nevada Hiking

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Description  - Nevada means "snowcapped" in Spanish. Thanks to its unique geographic history, Nevada has more mountain ranges than any other state in the nation. Nevada has 26 mountain ranges with peaks over 10,000 feet, the highest peak is Boundary Peak (13,140 feet) located in Esmeralda County . Nevada geography consists of the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert. The Great Basin encompasses 75 percent of the land in the northern portion of the state. It was named the Great Basin in the mid-nineteenth century because of its size and the absence of water leaving the area. Although famed for its deserts and hot dry desert, the Humboldt - Toiyabe National Forest, the largest National Forest outside the State of Alaska, sprawls from eastern California and western Nevada to the northeastern boundary of the state and on down to southern Nevada and takes in the higher elevations of some of Nevada's most spectacular mountain ranges. In addition, the Humboldt - Toiyab