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Gallery: Arches National Park, September 24, 2007, Utah
Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
The park is located near Moab, Utah, and is 119 square miles (310 km2) in size. Its highest elevation is 5,653 feet (1,723 m) at Elephant Butte, and its lowest elevation is 4,085 feet (1,245 m) at the visitor center. Since 1970, forty-three arches have toppled because of erosion. The park receives 10 inches (250 mm) of rain a year on average. (wikipedia)
See more of our Image Galleries at Haw Creek.
Old Faithful Hamilton’s Store
Devils Den Paddling
Campfire at Elkmont
Blacktail Plateau Drive
Heavy flow
Green River Ferry
Abyss Pool
Smoky Mountains on a cloudy day
Still recovering
Cedar Falls at Petit Jean
Lake Fort Smith Campground
Near the end of the season
Cave Formations
Milky Blue
Autumn Grass
Graffiti in the Park
Leaves on Lake Bailey
Foot Bridge
Sorghum furnace
Mountain Laurel
Canary Springs
Another blog that I’m trying to post to on a regular basis is Haw Creek Out ‘n About. I’m currently only posting photographs from our travels there.
The images posted here are photos that were posted on Haw Creek Out ‘n About over the last month.
All of my photos that I publish here and on Haw Creek Out ‘n About are from my online photo galleries. They are randomly selected and only used one time. Photos published on Haw Creek Out ‘n About will not be published on Exit78, except for those use for announcements of new galleries, and vice verse. Some of the photos may have been been posted previously, before I had established the galleries.
While I would like to publish other material in addition to the photos, I have so many photos that I really want to focus on getting the photo galleries built.
I suppose that I could just post all of the photos on Flickr or some other service. However, the photos are intended to be integral part of my Haw Creek web site, — which will eventually include information to go with the photos, so I want the photo galleries on Haw Creek.
I hope to be adding more photo galleries to Haw Creek soon. When they are up, I’ll announce them on each of my blogs.
We visited Arches National Park in 2007 and had hoped to do the same this year. However, with the contract job terms, it now looks like I will be working part of the time that we had planned for traveling.
This new photo gallery is from our 2007 travels. We were on our way home and had planned three nights and two days visiting the national parks in the Moab, Utah area. One of the two days was spent at Arches National Park.
It was our second visit to Arches. The first one was even briefer — just an afternoon, I think, on our way home from one of our vacations in the early 90s.
The day started out a bit windy and chilly. It was Karen’s birthday, September 24, 2007.
We took a couple of short trails. One of them went to — and around — Balanced Rock. The other trail was in the Windows Section and went to North Window and South Window Arches, as well as Turret Arch.
After lunch, we went to the Delicate Arch trail head parking lot at Wolfe Ranch. The trail is 3.0 (4.8 km) miles round trip. A short side trail leads to some petroglyphs.
There is no shade on the Delicate Arch trail and much of it is over open sandstone called “slick rock.” The National Park Service recommends at least a quart of water per person.
The trail is marked with rock cairns. At the end of the trail is the most famous arch in the park, Delicate Arch, which is used as a background for Utah license plates.
Even though the day started cool, by the time we were done, it was plenty warm and neither of us had any water left, though I had nursed mine until the very end. If it had been a warmer day, we would have needed more water.
Karen on the Edge — Grandview Point Trail, Canyonlands National Park
The Grand View Point Trail begins as the end of Grand View Road on the southern tip of Island in the Sky Mesa. It starts at an approximate elevation of 6,100 feet and heads one mile southwest along a level path.
September 23, 2007 at 11.56pm CMT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/350)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
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A composite image from several photos.
I was too close to get the whole thing in the viewfinder, so took some overlapping images and used autostitch to assemble them into one image. That’s why some of the people look a little ghostly. They were in two or more of the overlapping images and got “blended” into the scenery.
The same arch can be seen from a closer viewpoin in Utah Sky in a Natural Frame.
Photos in this composite image were taken September 24, 2007.
