June 16 to 20, 2015 Arches National Park, Canyonland National Park & Mesa Verde National Park
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2 Beginning our hot, dry, hike to the Delicate Arch
3 I can see the Delicate Arch from here but this shade is just iiiirrresistible!
4 Is this huge or what?
5 We finally got a chance to have the Arch to ourselves.
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8 Sand Dune Arch
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16 These rock formations looked like magnificent palaces of an ancient kingdom. Canyonland N P.
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19 Newspaper Rock
20 Can we make graffiti on these rocks??
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22 Mesa Verde Visitor Center
23 Waiting for our ranger to guide us through The Most Adventurous Cliff Dwelling tour, to the Balcony House, one of the preserved cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people.
24 Can we really? Should we really? Looking at the 32-foot Balcony House entrance ladder
25 No looking back... we started the steep ascent by the cliff
26 Did we just go up that thing?
27 The Kiva, believed to be a ceremonial room used by the Anasazi Puebloans
28 The Balcony. next to the entrance to the 18-inch wide, 12-foot long tunnel we were going to crawl through
29 Another climb, this time up the 60-foot stone steps by an open clliff
30 We-did-it-high-five!
31 That Balanced Rock at the Arches National Park seems to be star-gazing too
32 High noon picture-perfect
33 Dead Horse State Park, Evaporation Pond
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35 Island in the Sky, Canyonland.
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37 Upheaval Dome
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39 Mesa Arch
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44 One of the many amazing rock-formations at Cave Spring, Canyonlands National Park
