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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

One last trip down the Colorado River from Moab

We took one last trip down the Colorado River, this time from the east side.

Looking down river

We saw these two jeeps on the side of the mountain...navigating very slowly...up the side.

There they are...going up the side of the mountain

Let's pan back a bit....still see 'em?

See if you can see them now? Notice how large that mountain side is?

You will find a movie showing them close up then far away here on youtube:

https://youtu.be/ANY9YzR0Y4Q

Anyway...back to the rocks....I took a photo of a side of the mountain, then took closeups on individual spots on the side to show how interesting the rocks are to us. We stood and stared for at least 15 minutes picking out the features.

...and here's the other side of the river...

We ended up taking a dirt road far off the river into a canyon with towering cliffs above us.

That's it for Moab...we head for places south next...watch for 'em.

Steve/Kim/Katie

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Arches National Park 2016

We've been to Arches National Park twice before so this time we avoided the arches themselves (and the endless crowds) and just enjoyed some of the magnificent rock formations instead. This is the best time to visit this area as well as the Fall so there were a LOT of people...and buses full of tourists as well. One day, we turned around at the entrance because there were at least 30 cars in each of the two lanes to get into the park.

As usual...the rock formations are beyond description so I'm going to just put a number of photos in here and, at the end, you'll see a link to the photos we took last year.