My simplified understanding is that rock formed as an ocean evaporated, and the weight of this compressed rock broke the salt bed below, creating layers from surfaces that trusted upwards and salt that fell in.
Tunnel arch.
Girl at pine tree arch.
Raul under landscape arch...
Wolfe Ranch, built in the late 1800s by a Civil War veteran from Ohio with respiratory issues. It seems arid desert climate served him well (can't speak for his cattle though).
See those specks up there? They're people climbing up to see Delicate Arch. Just a little daunting.
Cool.
Between the sun and hours on the road, we needed an impromptu pit stop, so here we are in Salina, Utah.
The girl at the diner said we had just missed a hot air balloon festival last week (but that nothing else would be going on for a while).
Un believable!
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