{"id":919,"date":"2016-02-21T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2016-02-21T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T03:05:30","slug":"back-to-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Back to Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy and I were in Vegas this week with our friends Chris and Jennifer.\u00a0 Many of the casinos were still decorated for Chinese New Year.\u00a0 We were hoping standing in front of the money tree would bring us luck (it didn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-913 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1IMG_2129.jpg\" alt=\"1IMG_2129\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1IMG_2129.jpg 480w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1IMG_2129-225x300.jpg 225w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/640;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides eating, drinking, and helping the economy; we did spend the day out at Red Rock. Chris and I were just on this climb last week, but we&#8217;ll never pass up a chance to summit Turtlehead peak.\u00a0 The weather was wonderful and the trail didn&#8217;t have a lot of people on it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-911 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-225x300.jpg 225w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/640;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-920 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image2-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image2.jpg 1632w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/469;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The climb was pretty striaght-forward and in just over 75 minutes, we were all on the summit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-915 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image1x-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"1image1x\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image1x-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image1x-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image1x-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image1x-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image1x.jpg 1632w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/469;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-916 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2a-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1image2a\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2a-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2a-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2a.jpg 1224w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/833;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-917 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2x-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1image2x\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2x-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2x-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2x-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image2x.jpg 1224w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/833;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-918 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image3a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"1image3a\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image3a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image3a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image3a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image3a-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1image3a.jpg 1632w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/469;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We still had energy so we drove up the road a little bit and hiked up to Keystone Thurst.\u00a0 Its basically a fault line that runs through the far end of the park.\u00a0 Chris climbed up to a small cave and was able to snap a picture of Tracy and I sitting on an overhang of a creek bed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-924 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2152-hi-ress-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2152-hi ress\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2152-hi-ress-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2152-hi-ress-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skelmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2152-hi-ress-624x832.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 625px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 625\/833;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy and I were in Vegas this week with our friends Chris and Jennifer.\u00a0 Many of the casinos were still decorated for Chinese New Year.\u00a0 We were hoping standing in front of the money tree would bring us luck (it didn&#8217;t). Besides eating, drinking, and helping the economy; we did spend the day out at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}