Got some fresh, homemade pioneer bread, scones and pies at
the Gifford Homestead, delicious! The Giffords were the last Mormons to leave
the area, I believe some time around 1965.
We spend most of the day driving through scenery that looked
like we were on the moon, got quite boring at some point. But we had a
destination to look forward to: the Arches National Park. Water and ice,
extreme temperatures and underground salt are responsible for the sculptured
rock scenery of Arches National Park. Over 2,000 cataloged arches range in size
from a three-foot opening (30cm), the minimum to be considered an arch, to the
longest, Landscape Arch, measuring 306 feet (about 100m) base to base.
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Entrada Sandstone
Total Height 128feet/39m
Boulder Height 55feet/17m
Boulder Weight 3,500tons/over 3 million kg |
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| Tunnel Arch |
Dogs were not allowed on any trails, darn. And it is getting
warmer, we noticed… At the Landscape Arch, Rolf and I managed to loose each
other, so that we were both envisioning having to call the rangers to look for
the other person lost in some mountain crevice or something, which luckily
didn’t become necessary, we found each other again at the end of the park.
Again, breathtaking scenery, pictures can’t really show it…Also visited the
“Windows Section”, but had no energy left to walk all the way to the famous
“Delicate Arch”, a view from afar had to do. We don’t know what it was that
day, could it really been the walk to the Landscape Arch?, but we were so
pooped that night, I think lights were out at 8pm.
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| Landscape Arch |
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| Arch in the "Window Section" |
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