Castle Rock, Rocky Mountain & Moab

Mesa Arch in Canyonlands.

This is the canyon formed by the Green River in Canyonlands National Park.

We hiked in this area called the Fiery Furnace. It contains a maze of spires and fins. There is no map; you have to try to remember your way out. Fortunately for us, someone had left a trail of sunflower seed hulls that we could follow. Of course, that is against park rules, but it helped us.

This is where Wall Arch used to be. The entire arch collasped last August.

Landscape Arch. Part of it fell in 1991.

Delicate Arch, the unofficial symbol of Utah.

This is our campsite in Rocky Mountain. Those elk tried to eat everything.

Mountains with a lake in the alpine tundra in Rocky Mountain. The elevation here is about 13,000.

Here are some pictures from our travels through Castle Rock en route to Rocky Mountain and from there to Moab, Utah. Also, there is a short video of Olivia describing some poop we found and which animal it came from. Jim and Nan bought Olivia a book called Who Pooped in the Park and Olivia uses it for identification. There are two other videos, but one is enough! I've included pictures from Arches and Canyonlands Parks. Both parks were beautiful, but Arches is amazing. We got really lucky. The day we arrived in Moab, the temp was 100 degrees. However, a cold front moved in overnight and the high the next day was only 84 degrees. In Rocky Mountain, the high was probably 65. The overnight lows were in the 40's.