A Morning Walk on the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail

A Morning Walk on the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail

One of our favorite places to walk locally is the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It’s a fairly easy 4-mile out and back, hard-packed gravel path on the abandoned railroad line that was built to transport materials and supplies for the construction of the Hoover Dam back in the early 1930s.

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A Winter Without Winter

A Winter Without Winter

The calendar indicated it was winter, but it was hard to believe. Winter certainly didn’t feel like winter this year. The Las Vegas Journal recently reported, “Las Vegas has just experienced its warmest meteorological winter (December-February) on record, according to the National Weather Service, with a mean temperature of 55.1°F.”

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