This was surely our experience today. Four of us left from the hotel to ride out to the end of Arches National Park. Without taking some of the detours, specifically to Delicate Arch (which is amazing, but none of us wanted to hike 3 hours in the middle of our ride), our ride actually ended up being just over 50 miles. And it was wondrous. As you'll see below, we had some major hillage today, unlike the last two days. Well, yesterday's climb was a short, 10 percent grade. Today...well, you'll see some elevation below. There are 5 National parks in this area, and all of them are very different. We saw a lot more sand in Arches, large swaths of sand fields, really. Which is from the arches and cliff erosion over time. I'd say more about that, but I actually fell asleep in the 15 minute film about the history of Arches in the visitors center on our way back to town.
By the way, temps have been hovering between 45 degrees in the morning and 70 by afternoon. Really wonderful weather!
The sand was a bit of a souvenir from short hike into Sand Dune Arch.
Tomorrow we float down a bit of the Colorado River. Until then....
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