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MAY-JUNE ITENERARY
May 2nd Green River, UT at Shady Acres x4 nights (159m)
May 6th Heber, UT Mountain Valley RVR (2 layovers) x7n (234m)
May 16th Bend, OR TT (layovers TBD) x7n (654m)
June 5th Newport, OR at Whaler’s Rest
June 26th leave Newport, OR
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5.03.19- Dennis’ Birthday-Arches
Yes, Dennis’ birthday. No! We did not forget. He did receive our presents in time and enjoyed both cake and pie during his special day. For us we got an early start and travelled an hour to experience Arches Canyon. We did and were so very impressed we the experience.
By 9:30, after congratulating Dennis, it was off to Arches..
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The full purpose of the picture below is for the reader to appreciate the awesome height of these mountainous size in relation to the car in the picture as well.
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.In the picture above is a view of the half-mile roadway to get to the entrance to the park. This is the Park Avenue Trail. As we have seen this year and years past the National Park Service does an super jog of making so many of these monuments so accessible.
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I have over three-hundred pictures of mountainous structures we’d seen on this visit..
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Below is our first “arch” structure. (Center of picture).
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Balanced Rock coming up.
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.Below another arch, in the center of picture. This blog is basically a pictorial on Arches, so they will get redundant eventually.
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Both up and down are more arches. Can you find the arch in the picture below?.
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Arches, Arches everywhere.
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It was a good walk but the sight was well worth it, not to mention the beautiful parkway, thanks to the NPS..
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. Three-hundred-million years ago this area, as well as most of the country, was covered with over ten-thousand feet of water, snow, ice and when it all began to melt, a million years later the friction of the water flowing past the sandstone structures took on very beautiful designs. Over the course of the three-hundred-million years the deep waters andice came back many, many times...
Below Delicate Arch coming up..
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.Delicate Arch was just to long a hike so we chose to present a picture in place of the real thing..
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.Once again I must rely on the poor-man’s telephoto lens, the cropping option. Below, we’ve reached the end of the Arch parade, at least for us. One more awesome site coming up.…
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..Fiery Furnace coming up! This is going to be a pretty good size walk, only hope the vision is worth it. You noticed the walk begins by negotiating a series of stone steps leading to an original walkway, not the kind the NPS provides..
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The tall narrow rock structures are called “fins.”
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Devils Garden coming up next:
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Above is a small section of the Devils Garden. Devils Garden are rocks and cliffs that are saturated with iron.
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We’re about half way back to our final stop and we have a look at the arrival road.
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As always, there’s always a gift store. Yes, we made a purchase. Below a Ranger explains to Carla the cause of the heavy coloring in the rock formations.
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The next few pictures are from a movie at the Visitor’s Center. The arch below was just to long a walk to see in person.
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Above is another look of Hoodoos in the Winter time.
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.Above and below are from the movie and are Winter scenes. Our visit to the Arches National Park was awesome. Accessibility was another big plus as well, as one who trips over himself walking in a parking lot.
