Arches National Park - Day 1

[brdgt]

The weekend before I left for Chicago Nick and I went down to Arches and Canyonlands for the weekend. We left early on Friday hoping to get a first-come campsite, since everything in Moab is booked for ages, but after driving around for a few hours gave up. We booked a motel an hour away (did I mention there are only three towns between Provo and Moab - four and a half hours and three towns?) and spent the day at Arches doing "easy" hikes.

This trail had increasing difficulty - and boy did we take advantage of that...



Our first Arch!



La Sal Mountains.



After losing the trail in one direction, we doubled back to Landscape Arch:



Then attempted the trail in the other direction:



Basically making our trip 9 miles instead of 4.



But we saw lots of Arches :)

Comments

[loreofcure.livejournal.com]

These pictures make me want to quote the Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky to you, but all the quotes are hyper-dramatic: "How fragile we are under the sheltering sky."

Well, I quoted him anyway (one of my favorite books!).