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we did it, we made it, YOU made it!! our moab, national, and state park round up is finito. until next time, haha! it’s almost tgif, hope y’all have a great weekend, thanks to any and all who pop in on the mister and i and follow our going-on’s, we appreciate the love! xo, t.
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this was one of, if not our favorite hike that we went on within arches national park (we love the park avenue in nyc so it only figures that we’d love a trail with the same name). it’s different from all of the other hikes in that you go down instead of up and walk along the bottom of the canyon. the entire trail is smooth stone or sand and it’s easy to imagine millions of gallons of water rushing through. it’s an easy hike too, so a good one to save for after devils garden or delicate arch trailheads. and this my friends is the end of our tour of arches. slide show officially over. (but we do have at least one post on canyonlands, sigh. don’t shoot me)
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this was one of my favorite spots in the park. the sand is deep like the beach, the air is cool, almost cold on an otherwise hot day, and it’s the last place you’d think there would be an arch.
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this hike seemed innocent when we started and then.. we got a little bit further and started seeing specks. followed immediately by the sinking feeling that they were people and maybe, just maybe, we should not have hiked 9 miles prior to starting this hike.
the rock mountain you zig zag your way up is hot as blue blazes and goes on forever. we had flashbacks of ryan mountain in joshua tree. we hiked early’ish in the day (not early enough) and it was march, and only in the sixties, and it still felt like we were sitting on the sun. in the summer, forget about it. is it worth it, yes. and he said he didn’t need shorts that day, quit asking him, ha!
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can you see me? ↑
we took a little off road adventure, a dirt road winding thru tall sand dunes and big views…
i don’t know how much is too much when it comes to travel pictures, i’m trying to keep it as concise as possible so we don’t turn into those people. we have two more hikes within arches that i just can’t not show you and we still have our visit to canyonlands. oof. are you worried? (; national parks are so amazing, to think that such vast and extreme beauty and landscapes are right outside our backdoors. we feel so lucky that most of our park visits (nationwide) have been like private tours, there have been so few visitors that it’s been like having the parks to ourselves; it’s definitely a perk if you can visit in the off-seasons (especially if you want photos).
is it warm and spring like where you are? it’s getting colder by the minute here and snow, snow and more snow is on the forecast for our days ahead. times like these i really miss the south. march means warm days and daffodils and nothing but sunshine on the horizon when you’re below the mason-dixon line. but i keep telling myself it also means mosquitos and humidity and sweating. all of which i will have none of come spring and summer in colorado. patience.
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you actually climb down the end to continue on the trail… ↑
mr. blue eyes wanted no part of this
we started our first day with the longest hike in the park, and the beginning of the husband staying back from edges and walks on top of fins (the long skinny rock formations you can walk on top of along certain trails) while i peered over cliffs and tested my limits on how-close-to-the-edge to go (all the while he reminding me not to go too far…). the views do not disappoint anywhere in the park but this overlook, on the way to the double 0 arches, breathtaking. but it isn’t for the super faint of heart and it was a bit windy. we were the only ones for miles as we had gotten an early bird start, good thing he didn’t want to get rid of me.. (;
hellloo spring! (which means we have snow on the forecast for the weekend)
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one of our days in moab we drove to dead horse state park, it’s just shy of 30 miles from arches, on the same route to canyonland national park. we only spent a couple of hours here since we were visiting canyonland as well but loved our visit, it is an extremely well maintained park and if you have time offers a lot of lengthy and even overnight hikes. (plus they have campsites with electric and a dump site for rv’s)
what’s so amazing to us is how vastly different all three of the parks are (especially arches compared to the other two) when they are only 30 miles from each other. we are officially smitten with utah…
as a little p.s., have you seen the movie bernie with jack black? it’s a quirky one to be sure and is based on a true story. one to check out if you like off the wall + true.
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we’re home! moab was such a good little getaway, i’m sorting through our photos of arches, dead horse, and canyonland parks and will be sharing this week (get ready slideshow). todays photo’s are from our drive home, we had planned to stay in the mountains and soak in a hot springs but the weather forecast was rain and we decided to do a driving tour of towns along the way instead and get home while the sun was shining. we drove through telluride, ouray, montrose, gunnison (along black canyon national park), and salida. we loved seeing so much of colorado that was new to us, and we’re forever smitten with moab and the neverending beauty of utah….. and we were home just in time for the husbands favorite holiday.
can you see them? one of our favorites (of many!) in arches….
lots to share next week, have a good weekend!
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i know, i know.. where are the pictures of arches national park, we know what you two look like already! right?!! (; i took 200 photos today, the husband said wouldn’t it be funny to just load them all on the blog and be like.. here they are, good luck sorting through them. haha. but seriously, half are probably crap and then half of two hundred is still way-too-many so i’ve got some sorting to do. just how many pictures are too many? and we still have two more parks to see, scary….would you like to come over and watch a slide show with us? crickets all around.
anyhoo. here’s the dealio on pictures of yourself in beautiful places. the long arm shot is good. the first photo (above) was early in the morning and a couple + us were the only people for miles and they offered to snap a shot of us, ok, great! but otherwise we do the occasional scooch together honey, this is our big photo op! it doesn’t have to be perfect, it’s better that way. we went up to one of the more famous arches in the park and a woman and her daughter dominated the entire space taking at least fifty plus photos. oye. they were still at it twenty minutes later when we passed back by after doing the short loop hike at that stop. snap and go peeps, snap and GO.
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