Another day in the sunshine and beauty of our country...it is just amazing, every turn there is something new and wonderous to see...it's just breathtaking! Today we headed to Canyonlands NP, which was about 40 minutes outside of Moab. It's the largest national park in Utah, but is easier to see and wasn't quite as crowded as Arches was...and I'd imagine today it would have been even busier...being a Saturday and a "free" entrance to NP's today.
Canyonlands is different than Arches, although we did see a beautiful arch this morning, there are not near the number of arches here that are in Arches NP...there were lots of canyons and this is where the Green River runs into the Colorado River, so below the viewpoints are amazing views of these spectacular canyons. We hiked a few more trails today and enjoyed them all, although we did turn around on one, which was pretty steep on slickrock, climbing a grainary we got just below the last level to reach the top and we just couldn't do it...too steep, too scary and too dangerous, at least for us. The crazy thing is that we met an older couple on our way up and they were talking about the great view up there...we couldn't believe they did it and we couldn't...oh well, we decided we have WAY too much left to see and LOTS more life to live and it wasn't work a risk, so we turned around and went back down...but felt pretty good about getting that far...oh well, we had plenty of other things to see and do today.
Here are some more photos from today...tomorrow we'll probably go back and do another hike in Canyonlands and then be sure to be around Dead Horse State Park shortly before sunset as that is suppose to offer some wonderful photo opportunities at sunset. We hope you are all having a great weekend...we sure are!!
Canyonlands is different than Arches, although we did see a beautiful arch this morning, there are not near the number of arches here that are in Arches NP...there were lots of canyons and this is where the Green River runs into the Colorado River, so below the viewpoints are amazing views of these spectacular canyons. We hiked a few more trails today and enjoyed them all, although we did turn around on one, which was pretty steep on slickrock, climbing a grainary we got just below the last level to reach the top and we just couldn't do it...too steep, too scary and too dangerous, at least for us. The crazy thing is that we met an older couple on our way up and they were talking about the great view up there...we couldn't believe they did it and we couldn't...oh well, we decided we have WAY too much left to see and LOTS more life to live and it wasn't work a risk, so we turned around and went back down...but felt pretty good about getting that far...oh well, we had plenty of other things to see and do today.
Here are some more photos from today...tomorrow we'll probably go back and do another hike in Canyonlands and then be sure to be around Dead Horse State Park shortly before sunset as that is suppose to offer some wonderful photo opportunities at sunset. We hope you are all having a great weekend...we sure are!!
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Nice shots Richard!!
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