Arches

Well, it was a long hike but it was beautiful.   There were many formations, but my favorite was the Three Gossips.  They looked like women in kimonos gossiping all the time. 

On one of the hikes I met a girl named Sophie.  She has depth-perception issues and has to walk with the aid of her parents on these hikes.  I gave her my walking stick and helped her down the stairs and she was walking down the steps on her own with it. 

I did notice how many of the rock formations looked like Egyptian carvings and coffins or sarcophagus.  I kept seeing them everywhere.  This one looks like Queen Nefertiti's head!

Here is a picture of Balanced Rock. The "Chip off the Old Block" was there but fell in the winter of some year.  The lower portion of the formation is Dewey rock, which erodes.  The top portion is the harder slickrock which does not erode as easily.  So soon the rock will fall, just like Chip.

Finally, here is Delicate Arch.  So small because we went to a small look-out.  We didn't do the real hike because we were scared and we couldn't cross it because there was a big canyon and I couldn't go by it.  I just took a far away picture.