Arches National Park

We visited another superb park these past two days. Arches NP contains over 2,000 natural sandstone arches fins, pinnacles, spires, and balanced rocks. You gotta see it to appreciate it. A few pics can’t do it justice, but what’s a blog without pictures.



The Three Gossips

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Wall Detail

After two weeks of dry camping, it’s nice to have utilities. We’re flush with flushing! We stayed two nights at a park south of Moab, then moved to another park north of Moab closer to the parks. Likely we’ll remain here for four nights, the last two dry camping, as they have no more spaces with hookups. Then we will continue our journey eastward with yet-to-be-determined stops in Colorado.

Tomorrow we will drive to Canyonlands National Park, an hour from our current location. Reportedly as spectacular as Arches, but completely different. Ho hum, more beauty.

We spent one evening in Moab, the local town for Arches and Canyonlands NPs. Most of the town is dedicated to the sports of cliff climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and 4 wheel touring.

This last “sport” seems most curious. People go out into Canyonlands NP, usually in small Jeeps. (Looking around Moab, you’d think that the Jeep was the State Vehicle.) Now we know nothing about this avocation, but we learned in the park visitors center that the desert surface is alive with organisms and quite delicate, taking up to 250 years to recover from the slightest damage. So these folks go out into the desert to test their skills driving up rocks and out of holes in the ground. It sure looks destructive to us, particularly in a national park.

Liberal envirowackos – that’s us.

Bruce