One Busy Day

August 1, 2007
So another hard-core Dosch day, brace yourself * am not sure you can even handle reading about it.

Woke up at 6 before sunrise, got dressed and set out on a sunrise hike to landscape arch. The largest freestanding arch in the US. Awesomely framed by the setting moon.



Next packed up camp and set out on another whirlwind day.

First did another driving tour of Arches for the ideal photographs with morning sun. We had Delicate Arch that is kind of far away but is the Utah post card picture.

Second caught the Elephant parade

And the double arch

And then pictures of the three gossips and sheep rocks

Absolutely awesome campground, awesome park. I would love to come back here. Could spend a lot of time here and checking out Canyonlands some more


Then we drove into Moab, picked up a few groceries and tried to track down some souvenir bumper stickers to decorate our cooler.

We then drove to Capitol Reef national park. We were first pleasantly surprised by a peach orchard with you pick your own fruit for a buck a pound. These things were awesome and we got to use this awesome fruit picker to help.

Picked up another stamp and headed down the scenic driving route which was just surrounded by breathtaking beauty. We even went down this narrow dirt road. Which seemed like we were in a corral reef without the water.

Well Our GPS led us to highway 12 which is a challenging but spectacular byway and gave us access to the Dixie national forest and place caked the national staircase monument. These our some pictures from our drive just to show how incredibly great the scenery was that wasn’t even in a national park.
We then went to Bryce canyon and the amphitheater/canyon is the highlight here. The weather wasn’t super cooperative but we certainly snuck our fair share of great views and photographs though. We even foolishly risked our lives for a brief moment until thinking twice as this sign warns of the impending doom during a lightening storm. This place was great and although we don’t have pictures we saw some “pronghorns” which are antelope like creatures and the fastest four legged creature on our continent and the second fastest in the world to the cheetah.