Utah 10/2007 - Moab & The Arches

Made it to Moab, a really neat town. One thing that is interesting about Moab is that it does not seem to be as dominated by the LDS Church (Mormons) as some small towns in Utah. It has the feeling that this place is were Utah's young people, who do not embrace the LDS Church, flock.

For folks who like Jeep Wranglers, and the like, Moab is a great place to walk down the main drag and oooooo and ogle all of the 4x4 rigs that are in town. Really have to work on not being covetous in this place, especially given the not so rugged crossover, all wheel drive, vehicle that we had.

The main attraction of Moab for us was The Arches National Park. There are so many really neat formations here.

Now exactly how did erosion cause this?

This place gives you the sense of the Lord's creative powers at work!



This is Balanced Rock.

On the way to Delicate Arch, we came across this old homestead. It is located on a spring feed creek, so it has a source of fresh water - necessary to survive in this dry place.

We got off of the main trail and headed up the mountains.

Ricky, who grew up hunting arrowheads in Jasper County, found an area where the native americans (indians) apparently worked to make their arrowheads. There were pieces of rock everywhere that didn't make it to be real arrowheads.

We finally make it to the Delicate Arch.









These formations are called windows.

This is what the underside of an arch/window looks like as you look up from underneath.

We wrap up our visit to The Arches National Park, head out over some dirt roads, putting our crossover vehicle to the test. It passed, just barely, and we headed back to Denver and home.