Category: Arches National Park

artistry in stone

wanderessence1025 November 15, 2018

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ~ Ovid

nature’s artistry

“Secrets carve us like water carves stone. On the surface nothing will shift, but things we cannot tell anyone chafe and consume us, and slowly our life settles around them, moulds itself into their shape.” ~ Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

nature’s artistry

“Masterpieces aren’t just limited to canvas.” ~ Anthony Hincks

nature’s artistry

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“PHOTOGRAPHY” INVITATION: I invite you to create a photography intention and then create a blog post for a place you have visited. Alternately, you can post a thematic post about a place, photos of whatever you discovered that set your heart afire. You can also do a thematic post of something you have found throughout all your travels: churches, doors, people reading, people hiking, mountains, patterns, all black & white, whatever!

You probably have your own ideas about this, but in case you’d like some ideas, you can visit my page: photography inspiration.

I challenge you to post no more than 20 photos (fewer is better) and to write less than 350-400 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself. Include the link in the comments below by Wednesday, November 28 at 1:00 p.m. EST. When I write my post in response to this challenge on Thursday, November 29, I’ll include your links in that post.

This will be an ongoing invitation, every first and third (& 5th, if there is one) Thursday of each month. Feel free to jump in at any time. 🙂

I hope you’ll join in our community. I look forward to reading your posts!

the ~ wander.essence ~ community

I invite you all to settle in and read a few posts from our wandering community. I promise, you’ll be inspired!

Lynn, of bluebrightly, wrote about her extensive road trip around the Los Angeles area, with highlights from the city, the desert, the mountains and the beach.
- SO(very)CAL: L.A. and Around
Jude, of Travel Words, posted some very Italian-looking photos from Little Italy in San Diego.
- Little Italy: Part One

Thanks to all of you who shared posts on the “photography” invitation. 🙂

petroglyphs in the four corners

wanderessence1025 October 18, 2018

Rock art and petroglyphs are widespread throughout the Four Corners area. They are like whispers of history from indigenous people, revealing something about their long-ago cultures.

Petroglyphs are images, symbols or designs scratched, pecked, carved, or incised on the surface of rock. Archeologists can guess at the meaning of the rock art, or they can ask contemporary indigenous communities about the meaning of these images.

In Utah, near Wolfe Ranch at Arches National Park, we found a stylized horse and rider surrounded by bighorn sheep and dog-like animals. Typical of Ute rock art, these figures were carved sometime between 1650 and 1850. Today this rock art panel is important to Native Americans in the region because it was created by their ancestors.

Ute Rock Art at Arches National Park

On Utah Highway Route 279 outside of Moab, prehistoric Native American rock art is found along the Colorado River and its tributary rivers, streams and side canyons. The rock art is depicted in either pictograph (painted) or petroglyph (pecked, incised, chiseled) images. Anthropomorphic (human characteristic) and Zoomorphic (animal characteristic) images are found here.

Cliffs along the Colorado River near Moab

Archeologists believe most of the rock art was created during Archaic (6,000-1000 B.C.) and Fremont (450-1300 A.D.) cultural periods.

Archaic rock art consists of pictographs and petroglyphs depicting anthropomorphs and zoomorphs, curvilinear lines, zigzags, wavy lines, concentric circles, and abstract symbols.

Petroglyphs on Rt. 279

Fremont Indian rock art often depicts trapezoidal anthropomorphs with horns, bighorn sheep, dogs, hunting scenes with weapons, and abstract objects.

Petroglyphs on Rt. 279

Petroglyphs on Rt. 279

Archaic and Fremont Indian petroglyphs can sometimes be found on the same rock art panel.

Petroglyphs on Rt. 279

Native American groups ascribe religious functions to some of the rock art panels and consider them to be sacred sites. Rock art has also been interpreted as depicting concepts of migration routes, fertility, hunting magic, ceremonies, and cosmic events.

Petroglyphs on Rt. 279

At Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the images below depict circular faces on a dark rock surface. Modern groups identify these as Kachinas, or spirit beings, in Pueblo religion and cosmology. Research suggests that the “Kachina culture” arrived in this region around 1300 A.D. Similar symbols, found on modern Puebloan pottery and weavings, remind us of the continuity between prehistoric sites and the present.

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona

Contemporary tribes have identified the step symbol on the rock below as a migration symbol, an important theme in Puebloan oral history.

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona

The dark coating on the boulder below is desert varnish – a concentration of mineral, clay, and organic material that accumulates over time Prehistoric artists created rock art by exposing the lighter material underneath.

Members of the Zuni tribe believe that this rock art depicts clan ties of the artist – perhaps a mother from the Crane Clan and father from the Frog Clan. An alternative Hopi interpretation recalls stories of a giant bird that came to villages to eat bad children.

The image below is similar to the white-faces ibis, a water bird, native to Petrified Forest, that eats frogs and other small animals. A close looks reveals what might represent water drops below the frog. This petroglyph likely represents aquatic resources and fertility.

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona

*May, 2018*

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You probably have your own ideas about this, but in case you’d like some ideas, you can visit my page: photography inspiration.

I challenge you to post no more than 20 photos (fewer is better) and to write less than 500-700 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself.

While I’m in Spain walking the Camino de Santiago from August 31 – October 25, and then in Portugal from October 26 – November 6, I kindly request that if you have a photography post you’d like to share, please simply link it to the appropriate post, this one or my next one as soon as it publishes. I will try my best to read your posts while I’m on my journey, but I won’t have a computer or the time or ability to add links to my posts.

My next scheduled photography post will be on November 1, 2018.

This will be an ongoing invitation, every first and third Thursday of each month. Feel free to jump in at any time. 🙂

I hope you’ll join in our community. I look forward to reading your posts!

the ~ wander.essence ~ community

I invite you all to settle in and read a few posts from our wandering community. I promise, you’ll be inspired! See below in the comments for any links.

Thanks to all of you who shared posts on the “photography” invitation. 🙂

sunset at arches national park

wanderessence1025 September 20, 2018

After eating dinner our second night in Moab at Arches Thai, we decided to make a mad dash back up to Arches National Park to catch the sunset. Our goal was to get to “The Windows Section,” since we’d missed it earlier in our visit. However, we misjudged the time it would take to get from Moab up the endless switchbacks to Arches, so we just caught the tail end of sunset. Sadly, we didn’t get any windows or arches in our views at all. 🙂

However, it still was quite pretty.

Sunset at Arches

Sunset at Arches

sunset at Arches

Sunset at Arches

Sunset at Arches

Sunset at Balanced Rock

blue light at Balanced Rock

*Wednesday, May 9, 2018*

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You probably have your own ideas about this, but in case you’d like some ideas, you can visit my page: photography inspiration.

I challenge you to post no more than 20 photos (fewer is better) and to write less than 350-400 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself.

My next scheduled photography post will be on October 4, 2018.

This will be an ongoing invitation. Feel free to jump in at any time.

I hope you’ll join in our community. I look forward to reading your posts!

the ~ wander.essence ~ community

I invite you all to settle in and read a few posts from our wandering community. I promise, you’ll be inspired! See below in the comments for any links.

Thanks to all of you who wrote photography posts following intentions you set for yourself.

arches in the four corners

wanderessence1025 September 6, 2018

Arches National Park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, but there are other arches elsewhere in Utah.

I’ve already shown you some on various hikes:

Delicate Arch

Skyline Arch

Landscape Arch

We found other arches at various viewpoints where a long hike wasn’t required.

Tunnel Arch along the Devils Garden Trail

Pine Tree Arch along Devils Garden Trail

Pine Tree Arch through the opposite side

Pine Tree Arch

Sand Dune Arch is well-concealed between two sandstone fins.

Sand Dune Arch

Broken Arch Trail winds through open blackbrush and grassland flats. The arch isn’t really broken, but a crack through the top gives it that appearance.

Broken Arch

We found Mesa Arch at Canyonlands National Park.

Mesa Arch at Canyonlands National Park

Wilson Arch, which sits right along the road from Moab to Bluff, Utah, was named after Joe Wilson, a local pioneer who had a cabin nearby in Dry Valley. This formation is known as Entrada Sandstone. Over time, the superficial cracks, joints, and folds of these layers were saturated with water. Ice formed in the fissures, melted under extreme desert heat, and winds cleaned out the loose particles. A series of free-standing fins remained. Wind and water attacked these fins until, in some, the cementing material gave way and chunks of rock tumbled out. Many damaged fins collapsed. Others, with the right edge of hardness survived despite their missing middles like Wilson Arch.

Wilson Arch

looking through Wilson Arch

The view from inside Wilson Arch

standing on the edge of Wilson Arch

Wilson Arch

While arches form from the inside out, some rock formations that look like arches are actually considered bridges. Owachomo Bridge at Natural Bridges National Monument is a bridge that was carved from the outside, by water. Because Owachomo no longer straddles all the streams which carved it, it appears to be an arch. Flowing water is required to carve a hole through a rock wall to form a bridge, while an arch is freestanding and does not span a water course.

Owachomo Bridge at Natural Bridges National Monument

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You probably have your own ideas about this, but in case you’d like some ideas, you can visit my page: photography inspiration.

I challenge you to post no more than 20 photos (fewer is better) and to write less than 350-500 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself.

My next scheduled photography post will be on September 20, 2018.

This will be an ongoing invitation. Feel free to jump in at any time.

I hope you’ll join in our community. I look forward to reading your posts!

the ~ wander.essence ~ community

I invite you all to settle in and read a few posts from our wandering community. I promise, you’ll be inspired! See below in the comments for any additional links.

Ulli, of Banactee, photographed abandoned places, and mused about the poetry of such places.
- Abandoned Dreamings

Thanks to all of you who wrote photography posts following intentions you set for yourself. 🙂

of hoodoos & badlands

wanderessence1025 August 16, 2018

My strange collection of hoodoos and badlands is growing. I encountered my first hoodoos, called fairy chimneys, in Cappadocia, Turkey in 2010. In the Four Corners area, I encountered both hoodoos and badlands in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. I still haven’t seen some of the most iconic hoodoos at Bryce National Park or elsewhere in the world.

What exactly is a hoodoo? I’m no scientist, but it seems hoodoos also go by the names of tent rocks, fairy chimneys or earth pyramids. They’re tall thin pillars of rock that protrude usually from the bottom of an arid basin or badland, most often in desert areas. The pillar normally consists of soft rock topped by harder, less easily eroded stone that protects the column from the elements. Hoodoos have a variable thickness, and are often described as having a totem-pole shaped body.

Badlands are a dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been eroded extensively by wind and water. They are characterized by steep slopes and minimal vegetation; they commonly include canyons, ravines, gullies, buttes, mesas and hoodoos. They are often difficult to navigate by foot.

Devrent Imagination Valley in Cappadocia

Fairy Chimneys in Cappadocia

Fairy Chimneys in Cappadocia

Cappadocia

ballooning through Cappadocia

Arches National Park is mostly known for its fabulous arches, but it also has its share of hoodoos.

Hoodoos at Arches National Park

Hoodoos at Arches National Park

Hoodoos at Arches

In Coal Mine Canyon near Tuba City, Arizona, I encountered a whole canyon full of rust-and-white striped hoodoos.

hoodoos in Coal Mine Canyon, Arizona

Coal Mine Canyon, AZ

Coal Mine Canyon

Blue Mesa at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is badlands area. Badlands are found around the world, usually in arid regions where poorly consolidated rock undergoes infrequent but torrential rain. The soft rock funnels quantities of water down rills, gullies and washes, the water carrying loads of sediment away. Bentonite clay within the formation can swell up with moisture, shrinking and cracking as it dries, creating an “elephant-skin surface.” Beneath the surface, an intricate maze of natural pipes and spaces form within the badlands. Clues to this hidden natural plumbing manifests on the face of the badlands as dimples in the ground, sinks, slumps and seeps. As erosion continues, caves and natural bridges can form as the spaces are exposed. Erosion creates new features every year.

Blue Mesa

Blue Mesa

Blue Mesa

Blue Mesa

Finally, The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico is a rolling landscape of badlands. Time and natural elements have etched a fantasy world of strange rock formations. The weathering of the sandstone forms hoodoos – weathered rock in the form of pinnacles, spires, cap rocks, and other unusual forms.

Crossing the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness

parched ground at Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness

Badlands at Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Translated from the Navajo language, Bisti (Bis-tie) means “a large area of shale hills.” De-Na-Zin (Deh-nah-zin) takes its name from the Navajo words for “cranes.”

Hoodoos at Bisti

Hoodoos at Bisti

Hoodoos at Bisti

Hoodoos at Bisti

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You probably have your own ideas about this, but in case you’d like some ideas, you can visit my page: photography inspiration.

I challenge you to post no more than 20 photos (fewer is better) and to write less than 350-500 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself. Include the link in the comments below by Thursday, August 30 at 1:00 p.m. EST. When I write my scheduled post in response to this challenge on Thursday, September 6, I’ll include your links in that post. If you link after August 30, I will not be able to include your link in my next post, so please feel free to add your link to that post as soon as it publishes (since I’m leaving for the Camino on August 31).

This will be an ongoing invitation, every first and third Thursday of each month. Feel free to jump in at any time. 🙂

I hope you’ll join in our community. I look forward to reading your posts!

the devils garden hike at arches

wanderessence1025 August 5, 2018

The Devils Garden Trail at the far end of Arches National Park offers routes of various difficulty and length, varying from 1.6-7.2 miles. The longest of the maintained trails in Arches National Park, Devils Garden Trail goes to seven impressive arches, with several more visible from the trail.

On our second morning, we took the hike to Landscape Arch and then climbed up further to Partition Arch and Navajo Arch. We had to hustle to keep ahead of the Chinese tourists who were disembarking from their tour bus.

The Landscape Arch Trail is easy and well-graded, providing a close look at one of the longest natural stone spans in the world.

For this hike, I used, for the first time, my new wide-angle lens (with the exception of the last two photos).

walking through a slot canyon into Devils Garden

Devils Garden Trail

Devils Garden Trail

Devils Garden Trail

Devils Garden Trail

Devils Garden Trail

Devils Garden Trail

cliffrose along Devils Garden Trail

Landscape Arch is slightly longer than a football field.

first glimpse of Landscape Arch

Around Landscape Arch

Landscape Arch

Devils Garden Trail

The path past Landscape Arch is more difficult, winding along the narrow tops of exposed sandstone fins, then up and over short, steep crevices where steps have been carved into the rock. This section is not recommended for hikers with a fear of heights.

We escaped the crowds at Landscape Arch with a plan to clamber our way up to Partition and Navajo Arch. The route looked scary — a steep climb up slickrock with slot-canyon drop-offs on either side — so I was hesitant to go up. While we stood looking at the climb, a woman from a canyon beneath us called up and asked if we’d seen her husband, and she went on to describe his T-shirt.

the slickrock way up to Partition Arch

The woman asked that, if we saw him, we inform him that she went up an alternate route, through this canyon. We stood debating for a while, and we finally decided to take the woman’s option up through the adjacent canyon. We climbed up only to realize that the path was blocked off with pieces of dead wood at the upper end – Closed. Oh well, we didn’t know, and it was easy enough to walk over the wood barriers! There was no way I was going to climb down that slickrock, so the sign wouldn’t deter us from coming back down that same route!

We continued on to Partition Arch.

Partition Arch

standing inside Partition Arch looking out over the mesa

Partition Arch

We then hiked to Navajo Arch, not quite as impressive.

inside Navajo Arch

view of Navajo Arch from outside

rock patterns near Navajo Arch

Finally, we worked out way back down and out, through our secret canyon, and past Landscape Arch once again.

Devils Garden Trail

our secret canyon

Devils Garden Trail

cow parsnip?

Adding Partition Arch and Navajo Arch to Landscape Arch made for a hike of 5.65 miles. It took us 2:52 hours at a pace of 30:32 minutes/mile. We were quite exhausted when it was said and done, but that didn’t stop us from making a few more detours before we returned to our car.

There is nothing like the dramatic landscape at Arches to make a person feel insignificant and overwhelmingly awed.

*Wednesday, May 9, 2018*

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On Sundays, I plan to post various walks that I took on our Four Corners trip as well as hikes I take locally while training for the Camino de Santiago; I may also post on other unrelated subjects. I will use these posts to participate in Jo’s Monday Walks or any other challenges that catch my fancy.

This post is in response to Jo’s Monday Walk: Sunrise on the Salt Pans.

strolling along park avenue at arches

wanderessence1025 July 29, 2018

After our hike at Delicate Arch, we drove to the far end of the park to see what else there was to see. We knew since we’d arrived at noon, we’d have to come back the next morning to do all we wanted to do. At the end, we stopped at Skyline Arch, walking about a half mile round trip.

Skyline Arch

Arches often form slowly, but quick and dramatic changes do occur. In 1940, a large boulder suddenly fell out of Skyline Arch, roughly doubling the size of the opening.

Skyline Arch

around Skyline Arch

As we had to get to the Visitor’s Center for my cancellation stamp by 5:00, we made a quick stop at Fiery Furnace Viewpoint. Mike was disappointed that I wouldn’t do the Fiery Furnace Trail with him. To enter this area, you must accompany a ranger-guided hike or obtain a day-use permit at the visitor center. The Fiery Furnace is a labyrinth of narrow sandstone canyons that requires agility to explore. You must climb through narrow passages and it is easy to get lost.

We stopped to admire the rock formations and the view of the La Sal Mountains.

Fiery Furnace Viewpoint

Named for the warm glow seen on the rocks in the late afternoon, the Fiery Furnace is actually a maze of cool, shady canyons between towering sandstone walls. The chaos of fins, spires and canyons has been called “void, silent – and almost uncanny in its solitude.”

The many vertical rock walls – or fins – you see here and in the Devils Garden are the result of movement, eons ago, far beneath the earth’s surface. Over time, erosion has been shaping the Fiery Furnace. Rain, snow and ice deepened and widened the cracks, creating these towering fins.

Fiery Furnace Viewpoint

La Sal Mountains from the Fiery Furnace Viewpoint

Fiery Furnace Viewpoint

The La Sal Mountains

At the Courthouse Towers Viewpoint, we saw Three Gossips, Sheep Rock, Tower of Babel, the Organ, and other monoliths.

Courthouse Towers Viewpoint

In another direction, we could see the Courthouse Wash Canyon, the Colorado River Canyon, La Sal Mountains and the Moab Valley.

Courthouse Towers Viewpoint

We drove hurriedly down the switchbacks into the Moab Valley to the Visitor’s Center, where I got my cancellation stamp in the nick of time. Then we drove back up the switchbacks to The Park Avenue Trail.

The Park Avenue Trail is a moderate hike along a canyon floor, offering close-up views of massive fins, balanced rocks, and lofty monoliths. We descended 320 feet down into the canyon. It’s recommended that you walk one mile to Courthouse Towers and have a driver pick you up and return you to the trailhead, but we walked 2.11 miles round trip because we had no such chauffeur available.

Park Avenue Trail

On our Park Avenue walk, we were amazed by the looming fins, the balanced rocks, the cairns, the brittlebrush, yucca, yellow monkeyflower and Prince’s Plume, as well as the swirls of color on the rocks in the wash.

Park Avenue Trail

Park Avenue Trail

Brittlebrush along Park Avenue Trail

Yucca on the Park Avenue Trail

rock art on the Park Avenue Trail

Courthouse Towers

Park Avenue Trail

Three Gossips

the wash along Park Avenue Trail

Park Avenue Trail

Park Avenue Trail

Courthouse Towers

plants eke out a living along the Park Avenue Trail

Park Avenue Trail

Park Avenue Trail

Park Avenue Trail

Yellow monkeyflower and Prince’s Plume along the Park Avenue Trail

Today, between our hikes at Balanced Rock, Delicate Arch, Park Avenue, and various viewpoints, we walked 19,498 steps, or 8.26 miles. What a good way to get me in shape for the Camino! 🙂

*Tuesday, May 8, 2018*

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This post is in response to Jo’s Monday Walk: Elvaston Castle Country Park.

the delicate arch hike at arches national park

wanderessence1025 July 22, 2018

We entered Arches National Park just before noon, after having driven from Grand Junction and the scenic route along the Colorado River. After sitting in line at the park entrance for about 15 minutes, we climbed to the top of the mesa using switchbacks along a steep road. We didn’t spend any time at the Visitor’s Center because we were anxious to begin exploring, so I told Mike we’d have to come back down by 5:00 so I could get my cancellation stamp in my Passport book for the day. He agreed, but later wasn’t too pleased about it!

First, we came upon a group of monoliths including the Courthouse Towers Viewpoint, the Tower of Babel, Sheep Rock and the Three Gossips.

Courthouse Towers, with Tower of Babel behind

Three Gossips

Tower of Babel

Arches National Park

I love what is called the Petrified Dunes Viewpoint; the landscape of what looks like sand dunes is actually stone. In the distance we can see the snow-covered La Sal Mountains.

La Sal Mountains viewed from the Petrified Dunes Viewpoint

Petrified Dunes Viewpoint

La Sal Mountains viewed from the Petrified Dunes Viewpoint

At the 128-foot high Balanced Rock, the caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone is perched upon a pedestal of mudstone. This softer Dewey Bridge Member of the Carmel Foundation weathers more quickly than the resistant rock above. Eventually, the faster-eroding Dewey Bridge will cause the collapse of Balanced Rock.

Balanced Rock

Cliffrose & Balanced Rock

Balanced Rock

Cliffrose

Near Balanced Rock

Balanced Rock

John Wesley Wolfe settled at the Wolfe Ranch in the late 1800s with his oldest son Fred. A nagging leg injury from the Civil War prompted John to move west from Ohio, looking for a drier climate. He chose this tract of more than 100 acres along Salt Wash for its water and grassland, enough for a few cattle.

Corral at Wolfe Ranch

The Wolfes built a one-room cabin, a corral, and a small dam across Salt Wash. For nearly a decade, they lived alone on the remote ranch.

Wolfe Ranch

In 1906, John’s daughter Flora Stanley, her husband and their children moved to the ranch. Shocked at the primitive conditions, Flora convinced her father to build a new cabin with a wood floor – the cabin that sits here today.

The reunited family weathered a few more years in Utah and in 1910 returned to Ohio. John Wolfe died on October 22, 1913, in Etna, Ohio, at the age of 84.

Wolfe Ranch

The strenuous Delicate Arch Trail begins at Wolfe Ranch, crosses a bridge near Salt Wash, and continues up a long stretch of open slickrock to Delicate Arch. The trail also winds through an area full of chert – a hard, shiny rock used by Native Americans for tools and weapons – and around a short ledge, hugging a steep cliff.

starting up the Delicate Arch Trail

slickrock on the Delicate Arch Trail

steps carved into the slickrock

looking back down on the parking lot

Mike on the Delicate Arch Trail

the Delicate Arch Trail looking down to the parking lot

Along the Delicate Arch Trail – the La Sal Mountains

gnarled juniper along the Delicate Arch trail

more gnarled juniper

After climbing what seems like an eternity up the slickrock, we now walk along a ledge with a steep drop-off. The ledge is to the right in the photo below.

The Delicate Arch Trail – the ledge we walked shown to the right

canyon below the ledge at Delicate Arch

Delicate Arch, an isolated remnant of a bygone fin, stands on the brink of a canyon, with the dramatic La Sal Mountains as a backdrop.

Delicate Arch

the carved out stone around Delicate Arch

Delicate Arch

the canyon below the ledge

me with my gnarled juniper

walking back down

close up of rock

salt flats

textured rock

The Delicate Arch Trail is considered a difficult trail, as it has no shade and some exposure to heights. Elevation change is 480 feet (146 meters). We followed rock cairns on the steep slickrock slope and the trail leveled out toward the top of the rock face. Just before you reach Delicate Arch, the trail traverses a rock ledge for about 200 yards (183 meters).

We actually walked 3.65 miles over 2 hours and we were quite exhausted after all of it. Some parts, especially along the ledge, were quite scary.

After the hike, we drove past several more viewpoints and then, before we could do our last hike at Park Avenue, I insisted that we drive back down to the Visitor’s Center to get my cancellation stamp for today!

my stamps in the National Parks passport

*Tuesday, May 8, 2018*

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This post is in response to Jo’s Monday Walk: A Tall Ships Treat.

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