Sunday, May 11, 2014

The destination of our longest hike of the day. Karl resting under the bottom "O" of the Double O Arch
Park Avenue from the designated overlook
Landscape Arch - great view that takes a fairly simple 2 mile round trip hike


Fabulous formations, some seen from the road or short, simi-level hiking paths, and others after hours of walking in sand, scrambling up rocks, or ascending some fairly perpendicular rock faces.



Karl checking to see if I'm okay.  Ya, ya, I'm coming, already.  I can't take photos while I'm walking.
Ooops, there he goes.  Good thing those nifty little stacks of stones marks the trail so I won't get too confused.
yep, those funky little rocks prove I'm still on the trail.
Karl checking GPS on our most difficult climb of the day.  "The Bowl" is only a few hundred feet away, but we won't be finding it from this face. That means hiking back out and trying it from another side.





Toe wedge... you've got to be kidding.  Didn't I already say I wasn't going any farther?Ah-ha. So this is the side where we were supposed to start.  Who would have thought the camp ground side and not the trail.  Go figure.  
This is what we came to see.  Info says not to go into bowl (as if!) apparently even really good climbers require ropes, etc. to get out of this hole.
That's where we were!

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