Devils Garden (Arches National Park) - 6.10.2010
The Devils Garden Trail is one of the most popular in the park... passing by 10 arches.
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Entering Devils Garden.
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Denali Girl in Devils Garden... looking for arches.
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Taking the short side trail to Tunnel Arch.
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Looking for Tunnel Arch.
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Tunnel Arch... 22 feet high... 27 feet wide.
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On another short side trail to Pine Tree Arch.
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Denali Girl on the way to Pine Tree Arch.
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Pine Tree Arch... 48 feet high... 46 feet wide.
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Near the Pine Tree Arch.
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Sandstone and interesting tree.
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Back on the main trail now and heading for more arches.
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Sandstone
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Landscape Arch has the longest span of all arches in the park.
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Landscape Arch is 106 feet high... 306 feet wide.
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Partition Arch can be seen from Landscape Arch.
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Climbing a little bit here
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Definitely a popular hike.
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We will take the two short hikes to Partition and Navajo arches... then come back for Double O Arch.
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Navajo Arch... 13 feet high... 41 feet wide.
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Denali Girl relaxing at the Partition Arch.
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Gecko
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Denali Girl on the way to Double O Arch... La Sal Mountains on the horizon.
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We will take a very short side trail to see Black Arch.
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Hard to find Black Arch... look in the center area of the photo.
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A closeup of Black Arch.
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Heading for Double O Arch.
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On the way to Double O Arch.
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Dark Angel on the far left.
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We can see Double O Arch... but let's get a little closer.
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Underneath Double O Arch.
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Denali Girl in the little 'O'... 9 feet high... 21 feet wide.
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The back side of Double O Arch... the large O is 45 feet high and 71 feet wide.
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Denali Girl on the back side of Double O Arch.
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Leaving Double O Arch to take the primitive trail on our return trip... making the hike a loop trip.
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Unnamed arch... or is it really an arch?
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On the primitive trail.
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Denali Girl on slickrock.
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Sandstone along the primitive trail.
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Dropping into Fin Canyon.
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Denali Girl in Fin Canyon.
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Denali Girl in Fin Canyon.
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Whatever it takes!!!
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More sandstone in Fin Canyon.
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Almost back to the car... the La Sal Range in the distance... 6 miles roundtrip, gaining 350 feet of elevation... add another 1.2 miles if you hike out to Dark Angel.
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