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| Balanced Rock |
After a short bike ride along the river, we headed up into
Arches National Park, just a few miles north of Moab. Our first stop was at Balanced Rock: a huge boulder perched atop a pedestal about 50 feet high. This would have started out as a sandstone fin, then erosion created an arch or window, more erosion caused the arch to collapse, leaving the pedestal, with a rock on top.
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| North and South Windows |
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| Petroglyphs near Wolfe Ranch |
Next stop was at the North and South windows, where we walked out around them; a ranger was reminding people to stay on the paths, that yesterday a fellow went out among the brush to get a photo, and was bitten by a rattlesnake - he was taken by helicopter to hospital, where he's still recovering. Needless to say, we were very careful to stay right on the paths. Our last stop was at the Wolfe ranch, which is really only two tiny one room cabins. It's hard to imagine a family living in the high desert in a small log cabin with one window and one door. We walked further along to see the petroglyphs carved in the rock by Ute Indians; as some figures are on horseback, these date to some time after the Ute people acquired horses from the Spanish.
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