Rest Day - Arches National Park
It's absolutely freezing! The cold-front has well and truly hit, todays Max Temp is 7, a low of -5, but it's blowing an icy gale so it feels more like zero. Arches is great, a bit Monument Valley like, but it's too cold to really take in any of the views and sights for too long, we have to be on the bike and moving to keep warm(ish)! We do make time to see a couple of the bigger arches, which are just eroded rock formations, in the windows section of the Park. There are also a lot of delicately balanced boulders, some monolith sheer rock walls, a petrified sand dune area, all of it with the La Sal Mountains covered in snow for a backdrop. We had planned to camp the night in the Park but abort mission, it's just way too cold. We will come back when the snow storm abates...
On our way back to Moab we, wait for it, get caught in a blizzard!! The snow is falling light, fast and sideways into our faces. Neither of us have even seen snow before, so this is really something else. Back at the Visitor Centre, trying to warm up inside for a minute, we meet Tyler, who offers us a couch to sleep on for the night, which we accept. Back at the house (he lives with 8 others) we pack into the car and head up to the surrounding hills where the snow is full-on dumping! Our first experience of snow is a surreal and freezing one!
On our way back to Moab we, wait for it, get caught in a blizzard!! The snow is falling light, fast and sideways into our faces. Neither of us have even seen snow before, so this is really something else. Back at the Visitor Centre, trying to warm up inside for a minute, we meet Tyler, who offers us a couch to sleep on for the night, which we accept. Back at the house (he lives with 8 others) we pack into the car and head up to the surrounding hills where the snow is full-on dumping! Our first experience of snow is a surreal and freezing one!
A few hours later...
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