Our last hike. We roused the kids at a decent hour, and headed to Arches National Park for our final hike of the trip. Our objective was Delicate Arch, one of the many naturally-formed sandstone arches throughout the park. Arches was very different from all the other parks we've visited. Desolate is the word that comes to mind - vast expanses of terrain that closely resembled the desert driving we endured moving from CA to AZ to UT. Large stretches of emptiness were dotted with shapely mounts, descriptively named for their attributes - Balanced Rock, Sheep Rock, Courthouse. Arches is one of Todd's favorite parks. He is enamored with the rock formations and arches. Billy and I were less impressed, and Sean, Maggie & Tommy chose not to weigh in. The "hike" turned out to be
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