We made it! We made it!

It took us 4 hours to go 90 miles. The road is very rough but it is a very pretty drive. There is a ranger station and a ranger who lives out here year around. The wildflowers were fantastic! I took about 15 pictures of just flowers.

This is Lava Falls Rapid. It is the biggest rapid on the Colorado River. If you look real close, there are 6 orange rafts around the falls. Some are getting ready to go through them and a couple have gone through. There is also a trail off to the right for those who get chicken to go through the falls. We talked with a man who had run the river two weeks ago.

3,000 feet straight down!

Mt. Trumball school house. The last day school was held was in 1968. This used to be a valley with 200-250 people living in it. Now the ranches are summer homes for the families. Lack of water and drought forced them to the cities.

The new road by Hoover Dam

Please look at pictures from the bottom up. After 9-11 "they" decided that we should protect our dams and now you go through a security check to cross over Hoover Dam. They are making a new road and then you won't be able to drive over the dam at all. It looks like they are about finished with the bridge part and they are working on the actual road..blasting through the mountain, making road bed, etc. The pictures of Lake Mead and the connected bridge were taken last week April 2010.
Lake Mead and it's bathtub ring

All I can say is that the bridge is really high and the river is a LONG WAY's down there.

These pictures were taken about two years ago.