ARCHES NATIONAL PARK

Guess what - lots of arches.  Beginning with the iconic Delicate Arch.

Managed to get it without anyone standing in the middle making love signs, or arms stretched out, or an unfit couple inching their way down, whilst the rest of us "serious" photographers curse and swear, waiting for them to disappear!

The park, like all the NPs we visited, was much more crowded than 22 years ago (no surprise), scenic turn offs and trailheads often full to bursting, and this is 2 or 3 weeks after Labor Day and back to school.  Fortunately, the temperature was much better than last time in July when we roasted in the nineties (have switched back to old style degrees whilst over here!).  Now it was a nice mid sixties.  Did some good short hikes and saw these along the way

FALLEN ARCHES

No, no - not those kind!

The above is Landscape Arch that lost a big chunk in 1991

This one lost some of its slabs in the 1940s

Several others have lost bits more recently including a total collapse of Wall Arch, that we saw on our last hot and sweaty visit, in 2008.  See here

Oops!!