Big View to Big Arch
October 20th 2011 I drove out of Moab the way I came in, heading northwest.
Just beyond town limits, I crossed something I didn’t notice in the dark, the Colorado River.
Since I’m upstream of Glen Canyon Dam (see Long, Empty, Glorious Southwest), the river looks the way a desert river should, muddy brown from silt.
Red cliffs appear on all sides.
Moab was founded here because it’s the only safe crossing s
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