8 May ‘08
Thursday
We’re camped at the top of a plateau, just outside of the Canyon Lands National Park. We tried to get into Arches National Park but they were all filled for the weekend. About 20 miles from here is the town of Moab, Utah which we toured this afternoon while looking for the best price on gasoline…the toad was getting a little low, so if we are to do a little exploring around here, we’ll just have to pay the $3.87 a gallon and get over it. After filling with the gas, we headed up to the Arches Visitor Center to see if there was still room for us to join the guided hike through “The Fiery Furnace” in the next couple of days. Fortunately we were able to join them on Saturday at 10am for the 2 hour hike. This is one of those “must do’s” when you get close to Arches National Park. To fill in the rest of the day, we continued from the visitor center and drove the 24 miles to the end of the park.
Along the way we were entertained with more “arches”
than we had seen in total for the last month and of course some other spectacular natural rock and mud formations throughout the park.
One thing’s for sure, if it’s going to be a spire or plateau of red, white, burgundy, or chocolate, you’re traveling in one of the 4 corner states. While traveling today, we even came through a large area of black/gray plateaus and of course the rains and winds created their own spires, this was the first for our trip. In some areas they were so black, that when the sun hit them straight on, they turned gold…unbelievable. Well, we’re getting up early again in the morning. We want to hike another canyon here in Canyon Lands. Fact is, if we get it done early enough we will go for a second. I have to get on-line and order some new hiking shoes/boots, I just about worn those that I have completely out.
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