Strange Stones

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A bit outside of Moab, one can find a short “Dino Track”. Directions to which are available a the local land management agency and basically involve driving into no mans land 15 miles north of Moab on a dirt road. Once there, there should be a short track, where dinosauric bones and petrified wood can be observed. However, the track is hardly visible and I just went past it on something like the “long loop” around two of those fancy mountains. That track, which took Read More +

Little Frog in the Desert

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Its not that surprising, that lizards, snakes – yes I have seen some – or beetles can be found in the desert around Moab. There the waves are “frozen” into the sand or the sand even is wrapped in thin layers, like dry sheet of paper. Yet there seems to be an environment for a little frog to survive.

Wormholes in Canyonland

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No, this is not about science fiction or physics. The wormholes I observed are for real and they are preserved in stone. That particular stone actually once was mud at the beach of an ocean or inland lake, where worms left their traces. As the mud got harder, mud cracks developed. All of which was then covered by the next layer preserving those structures for some time (actually quite a bit of time).

Catching Horus

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In order to use the morning sunlight, I quickly returned to Arches National Park before heading for the Canyonlands National Park. The feature officially labeled as the “Penguins” right at the entry of the park, kind of reminded me to some stone status I saw on another continent. Horus, the falcon headed egyptian god, is what came into my mind, when I noticed that formation. Maybe I was in Egypt to many times. Anyway, I will go there again, soon actually. In a way I Read More +

Plenty of Arches

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Today was fully dedicated to the arches and other formations as the “Arches National Park”. While there are explanations about layers of mud, dunes and salt seas being deposited at various intervals and then eroded again over a period of millions of years – we are talking about around 100 million years even, it is still hard to imagine that this all could result in such a spectacular landscape. But questions remain. For example at the arches or other locations where material obviously broke, where Read More +

Delicate Arch at Sunset

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After a long drive to Moab and finding a hotel, I finally managed to get into the Arches National Park. It was already quite late and sunset was immanent. So I decided to only briefly enjoy the extreme bizarre, but very beautiful landscape and mountains and head more or less directly to the “Delicate Arch”, probably the most famous arch in that park as its also imprinted on the number plate for cars registered in Utah. Looking at the description of the hiking path, I Read More +

Everyone at Moab – Best Western

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Looks like everyone wants to be at Moab, near the Arches National Park, this time of the year. At least the hotels are fully booked. I had to try in several places to get a bed for two nights and the prices where exorbitant at all three places. I actually ended up in calling my credit card company to check on my limit.