Above is this weeks free desktop. Back once again to an intriguing place which has been featured here many times before, Arches National Park. Arches is located just outside Moab, UT and showcases amazing erosion sculptured rock formations, with the main ones being it's namesake, arches. I'm sure the "how an arch is formed" speech got old long ago, so for those interested in learning this info, it can be found at the NPS site in the Links section (click the link for info on this weeks desktop). As has been the case with virtually all of the recent offerings from Arches, this weeks photo is from the Devils Garden section which has a large number of sandstone fins and is home to several of the premiere arches. The shot this week is of one you probably haven't heard of, Navajo Arch. This is a small arch found on a 1/2 mile round trip hike off the main trail and though it's only a few hundred feet from Wall Arch, Partition Arch and the premiere Landscape Arch, each of these is separated from the other by "fins" and seeing them all requires about a 1 1/2 miles of hiking though fins (it's actually kind of fun (: ). The trails in Devils Garden are really great as they take you right to some truly beautiful arches, while giving you a wonderful experience of walking through (and on) the fins and other rocks formations! At about 7 miles round trip with all the side trails, this is a fairly easy hike with close to half of this being on well maintained gravel paths (after Landscape Arch the trails do get a bit tougher, but it's well worth the effort). Arches is really a beautiful park and offers many more wonders than a person could hope to explore in a single day.
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