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Arches NP, Utah

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A very popular park but it’s worth fighting some of the crowds to see this unique landscape. Don’t miss it if you’re ever near Moab, Utah. Check out the BLOG!

The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins and giant balancing rocks.

This view of Hwy 191 that goes thru Moab is up in Arches. The plaque there says that the highway follows the Moab Fault which created this big crack in the red earth 6,000,000 years ago..

This is known as “Park Avenue” for all the skyscraper like rock formations.

Balancing rocks here too…top left!

The three gossips left, sheep right

Close up of the sheep, it looks just like one

Hope that rock stays put!

The double arch

Turret Arch

The north and south windows. Heard one vistor say it looks like a face…..2 eyes and a big nose pointing up. I see it!

The delicate arch, zoomed in from across the canyon. Too bad it was too busy to hike right up to it like these people did.

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Shows you just how far away from it we were…the arrow is pointing to the Delicate Arch

Rock fins. Never seen this type of rock formation before coming here.

Goofing around between some fins.

The sand dune arch

Hiking over to the Broken Arch

Broken Arch

Posing

Next day we came back to do this hike, love it!

Tunnel Arch

Pine Tree Arch

Scrambling up the side of this rock fin got my adrenaline pumping. Slipping would have been bad but our hiking boots stuck to it good!

Thought this looked like a solidified wave

Going up

The Private Arch…we had it all to ourselves which was awesome. Good spot for a snack.

Other side of the “Private Arch"

A row of fins

The end of the hike, the dark angel

The dark angel, sorry couldn’t get it all in vertically

Double O Arches - See the little hole under the big hole on the right!

So big it was impossible to get it all in the picture at this level

Really? Cool!!!

Even though the top of the fin was more than wide enough to walk along, the height still made the legs shaky (the drop on the left is way bigger than it looks!

This was fun!!!!

Loved this! All along the wall to the Navajo Arch, visitors had built little cairns in all the nooks and crannies

Had to add Mikey to the wall….only temporarily though, he came back with me

Navajo Arch

Partition Arch

View of people going up onto the Rock Fin, we were going the opposite way from the crowd.

The Landscape Arch. Back in 1991, hikers sitting under it heard what they thought was thunder. Shortly after, a 60 ft. slab of rock fell off the right side of the arch. Luckily no one was killed but they keep visitors far away from it now.

This massive red sand dune is just opposite to the Arches entrance. It’s huge! Looks like people slide down it on Cardboard based on the remnants we saw around. No thanks!

Hoping this is our last time in red dirt!

These are our “clean” hiking socks….the red stains are permanent now!

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