Moderate, 6.08 mi Out and back with spurs to other arches
*May be shortened to easy if stopping at Landscape Arch
919 ft elevation gain
Hiked 12/19/23
Takes you to several different arches; including Tunnel, Pine Tree, Navajo, and Partition Arches along with a few ‘lesser’ arches. Easily gets to Landscape Arch, the longest in the Park, before a moderate ascension along the fin-like slabs of sandstone with steep drop offs to reach Double O Arch.
Looking back towards the La Sal Mountains to the east, still coated in the glow of the early morning sun. On each side of the sandstone slab lies a steep drop off.
A large rock structure to the right frames the valley of sandstone below under cottony clouds.
Double O Arch from up close, the lower O to the right is big enough to comfortably sit in, but not stand.
https://youtu.be/LVLRIRo7z_s
Myron rambles a bit but it’s still really cool to see and understand why arches national Park is the way that it is. Never would have guessed “salt did it” but it do.
Thanks for that, was super informative. I always have enough wonder with a third of the country being a massive inland sea, adding that a large inlet of hyper saline is would domino effect to all these arches is just wild.