After I've now worked through the rest of the pictures, now for part two of the slide show to the National Park Tour from the extended weekend.
After Canyonlands on Saturday on Sunday, a somewhat smaller but no less beautiful National Park was on the program: The Arches National Park. The park entrance is located a few miles outside of Moab, and was thus reached by our tour base camp very quickly. As the name suggests, it is in this park to see one thing: Arches, arches or gates called rock. These sheets owe their existence to the constant erosion of the local soft sandstone by wind and rain - and you, ultimately, they fall back to the victim.
As we entered the park, we saw, however, not much of any bows. The sun was coming over the mountain peaks ...
... and no one was visible in the information building. Instead, the following was our welcoming committee Ensemble:
The true representatives of their species could be, unfortunately - apart from the crows - all day do not look over.
The view from our first stop had also done too little with stone arches, it was more like a scaled Monument Valley :
little left of center in the background the organ ( organ), the prominent rocks in the foreground is, I have given no idea how.
And on the second breakpoint Thats has no rocks gates, instead petrified sand dunes ( Petrified Dunes ):
followed the Balanced Rock - the naming should be obvious quickly
... and then it went off. Arches, Gates, Arches. First, the North Window ...
was ... followed by - well? - Right:
Next to it was the Turret Arch
...
… von dessen Position aus man nochmal einen hervorragenden Blick auf Nord- und Südfenster hatte:
Nach einem kleinen Fußweg erreichten wir den Double Arch …
… bevor es mit dem Auto …
… (ein Chevrolet Malibu , der sich trotz – oder gerade wegen – Automatik ganz angenehm fahren ließ), bevor es also mit dem Auto wieder einige Meilen zum nächsten Ziel zu überwinden was.
was at this stop us before a several hours' walk, so we, it was now later became morning, first, a second breakfast or lunch, offset lodged. The subsequent path had to offer some sights. It started with the remains of a ranch at the parking lot (in the picture below one can see the main building):
Here in the Middle of Nowhere , trying to end of the nineteenth century, the Farmer John Wolfe his luck, after a decade before his property again gave up and settled in Ohio more hospitable. You have to remember: The area of the park is desert, drought is a constant problem (at least in the hot season of the year) and the temperatures can easily exceed 45-degree mark. Ten years endure here must have been a huge achievement.
Only a few hundred yards further followed, the next sign of human settlement:
Petroglyphs , ie rock carvings, made by the Ute and American, therefore, of the indigenous community, which the State Utah to its present name helped.
The subsequent path was steep and led by sparsely vegetated, rocky terrain:
(in the middle of the picture here is people see - the only way for size comparison)
After several steps and breaths, we were finally released until then by a rock wall hidden view of the undoubtedly most famous of all Arches and we were left with Delicate Arch :
He is perhaps the among the most impressive Arches national park, not necessarily its size, which is also impressive (note the size comparison, the shoe prints in the snow), but rather by the fact that he was on a high plateau, completely free in the landscape. Not without reason he brought it to Utah as one of the landmarks of the state, what you get here presented daily on hundreds of cars in the form of their license plates:
(Photo by Heribert Wettels, Laupheim, unlimited use rights granted )
them here also seemed to like the bow:
The arduous climb was followed by a noticeably faster descent, another car-stage and then again the following forms: The Tunnel Arch ...
... the Pine Tree Arch ...
... and finally, with (depending on the measurement method) over a hundred meters wingspan allegedly longest rock arch in the world, Landscape Arch :
The Landscape Arch makes to the viewer a rather fragile Impression - and rightly so, for he has in the past three years, lost several hundredweight of heavy parts. In itself, this view was no longer increase, but we continued our walk along the path begun in order to achieve even two more bows.
It was again a bit steep ...
... and snowy ...
... but the effort was ultimately with a view to or by the Partition Arch ...
... and the Navajo Arch paid ...
... even if the way there, in places, in the truest sense of the word a balancing act meant
When we finally approached the car, it was late afternoon ...
... but before again called on the street (after all, were still a good five hours back to Salt Lake in front of us) ...
... we made one last stop at this a rock formation ...
to have ... after another hour's walk even short visits two forms: the Sand Dune Arch ...
... and the Broken Arch :
latter bears his name, actually it wrong, because he is not broken, so broken, do but by this score here ...
... a pretty broken impression.
Fairly broken we were when we compared to 22 clock back on Sunday evening arrived in Salt Lake.
What remains as a short conclusion? The tour was in all cases all the trouble, all footpaths, all hours, all organizational and financial effort worth it. Utah has to offer on its face to many many scenic attractions. I hope I get to see some more of it.
Good morning!
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