"Spent time at Red Rocks Canyon to kill the morning hours while the wife worked at a WeWork in Vegas. A couple of easy walks- the Moenkopi trail and the Keystone Thrust trail. I breezed right by the so called thrust and ended up on a low ripple with a little bump on it so I moseyed out to it. On the way back I had to do the Hogback as it was right there beckoning a visitor. " — Nimblefoot • Dec 8, 2022

"We parked at the White Rock Springs trailhead and took the White Rock Loop trail for a while, before heading up a steep, loose gully toward a 'notch' in the limestone. This route was published as 'La Madre Notch' in Branch Whitney's original Hiking Las Vegas book. From the notch, we headed north up a knife-edge ridge to gain the main east/west ridgeline. Once at the main ridge, we headed east along the ridge until we were at a place just south of El Bastardo. The overhung cliff bands prevented a direct ascent, so we traversed north below the cliffs, losing altitude until we found a break that we could ascend. We climbed up through the cliffs and then headed south, back to the summit. Once there, we heard someone yelling and noticed a lone figure on the ridge we were on previously. This is not a place that normal people go; my only guess is that he saw us going up in the beginning and decided to try to follow. Either way, he turned back. We descended down the EXTREMELY steep and loose gully just east of the summit. We had to descend one at a time in stages to avoid setting rocks loose on each other. Once we got down to the bend in the gully, there was a big dryfall that..." — Kevin • Feb 3, 2018