We woke up this morning to get to arches national park by sunrise and this is the
windows section of the park in which these arches are, I guess more like windows.
It's a good thing to do early in the morning shade I'd say 75 once we hit
the sun like we just did. It's heating up but also early in the morning beat the
crowds and they're pretty short hikes. Easy for the most part.
When you come to
arches national park and you want to do some photos of course you've got your cell
phone that works just fine. The best camera is one you have with you so that works.
If you want to come here get some cool shots the best lens to bring is the
widest angle lens you have. Because these arches, a lot of them are big you wanna
shoot that wide angle get this huge beautiful landscape. Now if you want that
starburst in the frame like the sun's like splintering out into the
frame like that you've seen that photo. The first thing to do is make sure your
lens is clean because any little dust or particles on that will be little
like dots on it. The second thing I want to do is pick the
biggest number of aperture or f-stop so f-22 f-16 something like that and then
you might have to play with overexposing or underexposing
just a little bit if you know how to do that. But the main thing is a clean lens
pointing it at the sun and getting that really high f-stop at f/16 f-22
So there's tons of arches here in Arches National Park this one is a nice
reprieve though this is Sand Dune Arch it is completely shaded so the
temperature within this little canyon here is about 20 degrees cooler than it
is out here. So that's a great place for a break if you have family if you have
kids to take them to have a picnic to chill out to relax in the sand.
I was enjoying my coffee on this fine morning in Arches National Park and I was just
admiring the morning wood rock formation in the distance there. This formation
behind us is called Morning Glory.
So here we are. So here we are. In the middle of Moab.
It's roughly a hundred and fifty-six degrees fahrenheit on
these rocks. Let's just say triple digits for sure. We're gonna go get into
a deep canyon do some canyoneering in the shade. A lot of our
models our guests our fellow adventurers actually decided not to do this
because they thought it might be a little too intense a little too
intimidating which makes me more excited to do it
when I hear that. Hell yeah sign me up. Chad did you know that Moab is where
Aron Ralston got stuck and had to cut his arm off with a pocketknife with a
pocketknife yeah in a nice little canyon so uh definitely don't lose our
group. By the way I just thought of another thing do you know where we are?
What this canyon is called? Where are we? What canyon is this? Which one?
Ephedra's grotto?
Oh I knew him he still owes me fifty bucks by the way. But we still don't know
where we are do we. I thought you were gonna get all that. Medieval Canyon that
goes down to the Frittata Grotto.
That's super confusing. Plus they're two cool names Ephedra's Grotto and Medieval Chambers.
I like to say both those. Off the rails.
What do you think? Good. Was it fun? How fun? On a scale of 1 to 10.
Seven. A seven that's it!? It was a ten, an eleven Livy.
Well we're inviting you in. We're here, we're not exhausted from a full day of
starting a six. That is bull**** and it's ten o'clock and we haven't eaten dinner but
we've just made it back to the Moab Adventure Center after climbing through
a canyon doing a couple repels that was super fun.
It was super fun I mean it was pretty hot on top but once you get down that canyon
really cool. First rappel 90 feet, second rappel 120 feet into this beautiful
oasis that's got the spring fed all this green vegetation down there and the hike
out was was nice. Very pretty you walk through some streams again you're in the shade
it's nice and cool a little later in the night we're seeing frogs we're
seeing toads. Mosquitos. Some mosquitos yes. You know what else that loves about the
canyon thing besides the cool weather is we didn't see a soul until
about a hundred feet from the parking lot and in a place like
this as popular as Moab that's a real treat. Yeah once again it was like 10-15
minutes outside of town. And I hate that I have to do this but if you're not
experienced at rappelling or with climbing don't try it by yourself,
get a guide, don't just go over there it's dangerous.Yeah don't do it
by yourself at all. Having said that there's kids on the trip tonight ranging
from how old is... I think Noah is 10, Noah is ten and the young girl is even younger than that.
Olivia is younger. They both rocked the hike and the
rappelling and I definitely on the second rappel there was some
pucker factor there. Dude how cool was it hanging there taking pictures. I mean the
drone comes down and you're sitting there and you're shooting another person
rappelling and I was like man Chad looks bad *** right now. It was fun. So if you want
to do your own canyon trip check these guys out it's MobAdventureCenter.com
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