Rocky is a Las Vegas Native who loves traveling around southern Nevada. You never know where he might end up! It is your challenge to find him. Click any one of Rocky's pictures for treasure-map style directions where Rocky is now.  Rocky Parsons  Rocky's Family Reunion, he is the third one from the left.
Rocky can be found Near Mt. Charleston.
 Rocky is on top of things.
1. Bring water and be careful. We are not responsible for anything that happens up there. It is hiking, it is a mountain, it is dangerous. BRING WATER!
2. Head to Kyle Canyon, past the Spring Mountains Visitor Center. You will be on Kyle Canyon Road for 2.1 miles to Echo Road. Turn right on Echo Road. To make sure it is Echo Road stick your head out the window and shout 'ECHO!' Take Echo Road .35 mile to Mary Jane Falls Road, a dirt road to the left. Go the the parking area and park. Get ready for your search.
3. Head up the Mary Jane Falls Hike. Just before reaching the first switchback you will pass a sign that says, "Please Stay on the Trail." The Big Falls trail is past this sign. Either go past this sign or jump off the Mary Jane Falls trail when it turns to the right.
4. About 25 yards past the switchback the road will fork. The left fork is a bit easier. The goal is to get into the wash at the bottom of the canyon. Just take the left fork.
5. The trail will drop into the wash. Ignore the nice pleasant trail across the wash and up the bank to the other side. There is no Rocky there. Head up the wash. You will pass a huge pile of dirt on the south side of the wash, a stick, and probably a rock too. Keep going up the wash.
6. Just past this pile of dirt the route will turn left and run south into Big Falls Canyon. Be sure to take Big Falls Canyon, which runs to the south-southwest, and not the much bigger echo canyon- which continues west- northwest. If you didn't bring a compass, stand on one leg and sing I'm a little teapot. When you get to the pour me out section your hand will be pointing to the south (I couldn't tell which way was south either, I just went left).
7. Keep going up this wash. You will be scrambling over and around boulders and logs, most of the way thinking to yourself how challenging it would be if it were made into a Wii game. You will come up to the base of the tall glorious gray limestone cliffs. The falls will be gushing out of the cliffs. Unless there is no water, then it is just cliffs. Our little Rocky friend will be there on 8/16/09, and I'll post his picture here. Go find him! (I forgot to take a picture). If you are looking at the falls, look to your right. Rocky will be looking at you. Take a picture! Take him somewhere else in Las Vegas and hide him. Then send me a picture with treasure map style directions, which I will post here.
If you have read this much, you are probably serious about going and looking for him. This is one of the best hikes I have ever been on, but it is also a bit dangerous. Not because you could fall to your death, but because you could fall to your injury pretty much everywhere. Be careful and don't go alone.
Bring Rocky home alive!
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