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Day 15: (Tuesday 9/23/25), The Arches National Park

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Day 14: (Monday 9/22/25), Grand Tetons to Salt Lake City, UT (half way to Moab UT). No Photos

Day 15: (Tuesday 9/23/25), Brigham, UT to Moab UT, & The Arches National Park

We spent Monday night at Love’s truck stop and didn’t even unhook the truck.  Had Subway for dinner, since it was inside the Love’s. Slept well, then up an at it again Tuesday morning to get to Moab UT.  I had timed entry stamp for 3:00 – 4:00 PM.  We set camper up, walked the dogs and left for The Arches National Park and was at the gate by 3:08 pm.  Drove to the delicate Arch outlook which had a short uphill hike of a half mile.  I was super proud of Sharon as she knocked that one out.  I shot the arch with my 100-500mm at 500mm.  The entire purpose of this part of the trip was to get the sunset or sunrise inside the arch.  We drove to the trailhead for the climb to the Arch.  Sharon stated she wasn’t into it and would wait in the car.  1.5 miles to the arch with 600 feet of vertical climb.  I was watching my Apple watch and did it in 46 minutes, and always kept my heart rate under 150.  When it would get close to 145, I would slow down.  Only took one water break.  Once at the top I went all the way to the left to try and line up the sunset. I couldn’t get far enough left.  The photo I wanted must happen in May or June.  Same with the sunrise, isn’t going to happen inside the arch in the morning.  I headed back down to the truck in the daylight instead of after sunset in the dark using a flashlight.  That means we can sleep in a little in the morning and then hit Canyon Land National Park tomorrow and of course Sharon will get to peruse all the little shops in Moab, UT.

Here are my Delicate Arch photos, descriptions under each on.

From the top shot with a 24-70mm

Shot from the outlook below with my RF100-500mm at 500mm

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Kent

Day 6: (Sunday 9/14/25)

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Day 6: (Sunday 9/14/25), Since we got so much accomplished the last three days, we decided it was time for a down day, slept in with no alarms.  We even did a load of laundry during coffee, breakfast, and shower time.   The only major attraction left on the list for this location was Crazy Horse Monument. The weather that was supposed to hit yesterday started blowing in this morning.  Crazy Horse is best photographed in the afternoon light.  Since the sky was dark and rain was coming, we decided to see if we could knock it out before football started.  Crazy Horse was interesting, kind of over-priced to me.  $15 per person to enter.  $125 per person if you want to take the bus to the top and walk around on his arm, to be square with his face.  We skipped that part 🙂

Tomorrow will be a long travel day from Custer SD, to Fishing Bridges RV Park inside Yellowstone, WY.

The storm skies kind of added to the photo, something a little different.

Crazy Horse’s Head, shot through the plaster model.  The model is on train tracks and gets rolled inside every night of if there is rain.  I had to really sweet talk the two security maintenance guys to roll it out.  They would only bring it out about 2/3’s of the way, but better than stuck in the barn.

Obligatory Black Hills mountain range landscape.  

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