Thursday, January 24, 2008

Trip to Arches with Scott & Family

Scott and his family came down this past weekend and spent a few days with us. We certainly enjoyed having them. On Sunday, we went into Arches. Cara and Allison had never been there. Here are Allison and Madison in front a fallen rock. As you can tell, it was really bright and sunny, but cold!
We all hiked up the windows area and this is the view looking back from Turret Arch. This formation is known as The Spectacles.
We only saw Delicate Arch from this viewpoint. None of us were up to the hike up to it. Maybe this summer we'll make it. Rick has been up several times.
Skyline Arch is just off the road so you don't have to go far to see it. The girls were pretty worn out by the time we got there. They didn't even get out of the car to view it.

Going home, we drove on past the turn off to Castle Valley to show them this view of Fisher Tower. You can see the frozen Colorado River in the foreground. In some places the ice is a foot thick! and all bunched up. It is really something to see. I haven't downloaded my pictures yet but when I do, I'll post some of it that I took, if they turn out. We really had a great time with Scott, Cara, Allison and Madison. Thanks for the visit.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The pictures are terrific. Thanks for having us down to visit. We had a great time.