Blogs from Arches National Park, Utah, United States, North America - page 7

Pour notre troisième étape dans le désert américain, nous avons choisi le "Arches National Park". Au réveil à Moab, le froid se fait sentir, la voiture est givrée et, bien sûr, nous n'avons pas de grattoir. Donc, en bons américains, nous avons fait chauffer la voiture pendant vingt minutes, histoire de bien polluer l'air pur environnant. On s'adapte comme on peut au mode de vie américain! Le parc des Arches est encore un site bien protégé aux Etats-Unis. Pour la petite histoire et vous faire partager mon savoir tout nouvellement acquis, ces bizarreries du paysage sont dues au fait qu'il existait un mer il y a très très très longtemps. Cette mer s'est asséchée et a laissé une couche de sel sur laquelle plusieurs couches se sont entassées. Seulement, l'eau s'est infiltrée, a atteint la couche ... read more

Halfway through day 3 of the workshop. Staying out at Arches until 10 pm makes for short nights. At least we aren't leaving an hour or more before sunrise! Still it's full days and I'm a little sleep deprived. But it's a good tired and I'm learning a lot. Here are a few images from Monday night and Tuesday. A brief nap should give me some added energy for our evening shoot.... read more

It's late but I wanted to post a couple of images from tonight's workshop for you to see. Hope you enjoy them.... read more

This is an update for Oct 14, 2008 (Monday) We awoke early today because we had two areas to cover. We spent the first half of the day in Arches National Park just north of Moab, Ut. This park has over 700 arches, most of which are reached by long hikes. We chose the hike that was described as the best in the travel guides. The first hike was over a very difficult trail. At some points we walked along partitions that were only a few feet wide with drops of several hundred feet. ... read more

We drove from Nevada to Moab, Utah. We were not going to let the Jeep issue ruin our day!!!!! Moab...........Hummmmmmmmmmmmm.....I can see some off-road jeeping in the near future. We drove through the Bonneville Salt Flats (really cool), and the scenery began to change again. We found a really nice campground on the Colorado River and stayed for two days. Arches National Park was beautiful and not crowded. We drove to Courthouse Towers, Fiery Furnace and Devils Garden then we hiked the Windows section. We learned that one of the large arches had fallen a few days prior, so some sections of the park were closed to the public. We talked to the Ranger about the off road jeep trails and on her recommendation we took a trail from Arches National Park to Canyonlands National Park. ... read more