Moab trip March 2024

 Our hiking club went to Moab Utah to see the sights. The first two days had good weather but the last three had periods of rain that affected where we could hike

First hike was in Arches NP, Devils Garden primitive loop hike. About 8 miles and 1000 ft gain.

First arch is Landscape arch.

After landscape arch the trail scrambles up a fin heading to Navajo arch.

The group at Navajo arch

The trail continues on ridge tops.

Double O arch is the farthest out on the trail.

The turnaround was at Dark Angel a little farther. There are petroglyphs in the area.

Double O arch from the other side.

The next day's hike was to the Great Gallery in a remote section of Canyonlands national park

The road passes sand dunes.

The start of the hike goes down 750 feet on an old road. Then follows the wash to the pictograph sites.

Dinosaur track on the trail down.

The alcove site

A grinding mark with strange circles carved inside

Another dinosaur track

The next day rained so we tried driving around to the various roadside  pictographs

 

Courthouse wash pictographs

Poison spider dinosaur tracks

It turned out to be too much rain so we went back to the hotel to wait it out. Later that afternoon we went to arches to see what we could see.

Not THE balanced rock but another one nearby

We then did a short hike out of the devils garden to Tapestry arch and broken arch. This is Tapestry arch

This is Broken arch

This is balanced rock

The clouds broke enough to see new snow on the La Sal mountains

This is the parking lot for sand dune arch. It is inside these fins. The temp then was about 40 degrees with 40 mph winds too. We didn't stay long.

Another morning we did Delicate arch and passed Wolfe ranch with it's two cabins and petroglyphs.

Normal crowds on the Delicate arch trail for march. It gets crowded in April and parking spaces are hard to get.

Corona arch was another day. This it the RR track near the parking lot down Potash road.

We made the side trip to Pinto arch.

Pinto arch

Bowtie arch

Cave Primrose blooming.

Corona arch

The chains section of Corona arch trail

The ladder section of Corona arch trail

Corona arch

Walking around the Ladder section.

Rare Alien petroglyph

Petroglyphs along potash road

Monument valley on the way home