Arches National Park

I visited Arches National Park on one of the hottest summer days. It is a very strange place: all the rock formations look so out-worldly. You can draw your own conclusions from the pictures.

Park Avenue

Park Avenue

a dear on Park Avenue

Three Gossips, Park Avenue

Sheep Rock and Tower of Babel

Sheep Rock

Delicate Arch viewed from Garden of Eden, 7.3Km away

Delicate Arch viewed from Garden of Eden, detail (can you see people there?)

South (left) and North Windows

Turret Arch

One of Window Arches can be seen through Turret Arch

Double Arch

Skyline Arch

Landscape Arch. It is huge!

Wall Arch
Here I mourn for it, because it is lost forever.
Its demise came unnoticed one early September day.
It collapsed. No one witnessed it.
I used to think geological time scales are big. Maybe not so much.

Fins northeast to Double O Arch

Double O Arch

Double O Arch

I don't know what this arch is, but I was looking towards northeast from Double O Arch.

Delicate Arch, viewed from Lower Delicate Arch Viewpoint

After about an hour hiking under 102F temperature and a setting sun, 146m elevation gain later, I finally saw Delicate Arch from its west side. La Sal Mountains in the far background.

Balanced Rock, sunset

sunset at Arches NP