greetings from moab in the last video we walked around this cute town looked in all the shops
ate some of the best donuts i've ever had in my life and stopped at a food truck park for
fried sushi of all things today we're going to be taking our adventure on into arches national
park arches national park of course is known for some beautiful scenery extremely unique sandstone
towers and of course the sandstone arches like delicate arch you've probably seen on instagram
yes getting this footage included walking through a sandstorm so come on and come travel with me so
today is a fee free day um i will put a link i know i read somewhere about throughout the year
they've got either days or weeks that it's kind of like national park week or national park day or
whatever now like i was telling you before you do need a qr code with a timed entry to get in here
let me show you what i'm talking about anytime i make these even when we were in philadelphia i'm
seeing the historical monuments and stuff i just download the app on my phone the recreation.gov
app and then you can go through there and learn about the different parks or
find out if you need to have a timed entry you can purchase them from there
so like when we were in philadelphia we had to have a time ticket per person but this one
is just per car and you'll end up giving them the qr code and then they'll scan it
and you'll pay your fee on top of this so if you're an annual pass holder or whatever even
if you're not this is just to get you in because like i said they're trying to kind of down all
of the crowds so that you don't have a ton of people in all at once and it gets clogged up
so this has to do with getting you in the park but then you also have a fee or you need an
annual pass if that makes sense if it doesn't put a put a question down in the um comments below and
i'll answer it for you from the entrance you then clap up this rock i don't know let's see if you
can see some of the other people don't have not yet wait you go up you kind of um back and forth
it doesn't look as big on the on the screen as it is in real life it's wild
that we get to stand this close because even at monument valley you were kind of
like the road was a little bit away but it's just kind of crazy how pretty everything is
we have made it to balanced rock and this thing is like really impressive
in real life so balanced rock is an easy trail uh they also say that it is good for
people with mobility issues i think most of it is paved most not all um but it basically is
a trail that encircles balanced rock which this thing is so cool these things are really cool and
don't get me wrong they are impressive but i think if you're not into looking at sandstone this view
wow keep in mind it is windy you probably can't hear me but still keep that in mind when you come
because i know like if you're trying to get to delicate arch i know i was reading there's
either 200 yards or 200 meters i can't remember of like you on the side of a rock cliff with maybe
two feet tops of you know the trail underfoot and you're kind of hugging a cliff so when the winds
are like this uh just take that into consideration because you are going to be up there on the side
of a cliff with 60 mile an hour it also kind of looks like maybe there's a storm coming um i read
this morning that there might be some around us but it was supposed to go around so we'll see
when you get down here to kind of windows or double arch there's like one parking lot for
everything that's in a loop so if you don't find parking the first time you go around
just keep going around somebody will come out there are restrooms here as well so that's cool
so the first thing we're going to do i think is double arch which is this way it doesn't
look like it's as crowded as windows over here so we're going to do this one first but there's so
many crutches i mean it's not just the one there's also like land of the elephants or something over
here as well while we're walking a couple of tips i would really recommend getting some sort of hat
especially if you're going to come out here in the summer months it's very hot you will get sunburned
i've got a really cute hat you know that the ones the ones that are like really pretty
and they're felt and you want to take pictures in them but the thing is is that puppy's going
to get blown off your head like that second thing is um wear probably some moisture picking clothes
usually they say don't caught because it um
takes a long time to dry so a lot of times they'll tell you to wear like a blend of marinade
and then i also changed out of my nike's into my actual hiking shoes because we are kind of
going on some not paved areas and some hard packed rock and i think that the extra grip will really
help out i have zoomed out as much as i can just to show you all of it i'm standing pretty well
underneath it it doesn't look like that my video it's just wow i cannot get over this
uh so maybe this will make it easier because it's very windy out here so we just went to double arch
so that's what i was saying at the parking lot it comes out here this is kind of an upper level and
this is a lower level so you can like we parked over here you can walk through here but you are
going to go down a bunch of stairs so just keep that in mind and then you walk out to
double arch so we came back here you have to go back up the stairs or you can walk around
and now we're about to go out here to the north window south window and turret arch
that is out here one thing about coming out to these
20 ounce bottle there's something like this out here but i think what i'm trying to say
is it's not like you're doing a three-mile hike or anything uh where you need to take a ton of water
now if you were going to go out to delegate arch because that's one of the most popular ones that
is a three mile hike and they say it is very strenuous i know that they recommend you take
quite a bit of water out there um always check the park websites to kind of get an idea of the
water suggestions um especially if you're going to be coming out here during the summertime
you want to take even more so just cut something up with the water in the car
i'm taking it out here to these because like i say we're not walking very
there you go
i'm sitting on a rock because otherwise i wouldn't be up here look at this
all right we're forging on to the south window
again more stairs so definitely working off of those chrome nuts okay
okay so this is this window so i don't think that you can see it right back here
for all of y'all who just want to be entertained um you know me for a second because i'd like to
learn there were some people who said they like to learn too so one of the thing about these
arches is that see all of this was kind of compressed sand at one point and so
between the wind and the rain and all that stuff over a very very very very long time
it eventually wears away the softer sand um and then you're kind of left with a really hard
compacted stone and so that's why you have these arches and eventually let me zoom in
eventually over a very very very long time long after we're all gone those holes will wear away
and this arch will fall um and that's kind of just the lifespan of these arches they do come
and go they're not forever they are beautiful so definitely come see them while they're still
here okay the wind's got down for a second so i think the next thing we're going to do is
head over to maybe a viewpoint for um delicate art it's probably one of the most famous arches
you've seen it on posters and stuff matter of fact i got a painting of it today what's going on with
the hat man it's windy up here sometimes i feel like having this hat on it's going to make me take
flight the wind gets crazy anyways we're gonna um drive over to the road where we can have a
viewpoint um we're not gonna do the full delicate arch hike today it is three miles like i say and
i think we have enough time to do it but the wind is crazy and there is like that really long
section where you're hugging the wall uh over a cliff and we all know how i feel about that
so we're not gonna do the full thing but we are gonna get a viewpoint of that arch
parking lot when you start the trail you have two choices
steep cliffs or heights or anything like that on the trail mount like some of the other um trails
do so we're going to test this one out it does say you've got 200 feet of elevation gain but it also
says that the upper viewpoint isn't as obstructed so we will see okay so far not bad uh it gets
kind of rocky up here so i don't think that um people with mobility issues could do this but
anyone else i think that where they're coming from is top and we haven't been walking very long so
less than like a five minute walk jeff's gonna point away
this is nice of course unless we get to the top more windy that's to be expected
maybe that's the top maybe we're almost there
we're working off the crow nuts that we ate this morning
the hiking trail for delicate arch actually comes from back here
so you're walking not behind this rock you're actually like behind all of this
you come in from the back side and you see the back side so we're kind of
getting to see the other side of the arch's head most of these people don't get to see them
very beautiful to see i highly suggest if you have a fear of heights or maybe the wind gusts
are too much or maybe you don't have a lot of time but you still want to see delicate
delicate arch come do this viewpoint like i said there's a viewpoint like right next to
the trail that's pretty far away or if you have the mobility and maybe an extra 15 minutes or so
definitely take this little 15 minute hike up here you can get a whole lot closer i'm
not going to say you're going to be close to delicate arch but you're going to be closer
than this other viewpoint down here that's the arch
if you don't have the time you should need to get out of your cart really quickly get it back in
you got to go somewhere maybe you got a dinner reservation or something or if you can do the
three mile night man i wasn't so petrified if that 200 feet of hanging onto the side of a cliff and
it's this windy we do it i kind of feel bad for jeff because he's not afraid of heights and i'm
sure he would love it which i told him i would go as far as i could and then i would wait for
him and i have no problem it's it would be just as happy as a little clam uh but he doesn't want
to do it without me so back here there's also restrooms as well and then there's a place to do a
picnic these people are cooking out smells really good actually can we come eat what you're eating
it tastes it smells delicious and i'm hungry okay this is kind of what we've decided so
again we have been out here to see delicate arch we're going to drive back this way
and now we're going to forge out kind of to the back area here
we read that sand dune arch was fun i think broken arch and tapestry are just fine we may
try to do this landscape pine tree and tunnel arch because it looks like we could do those and then
these back here they say are the most difficult in the park so we're not definitely not going to do
those let me look up tower arch so it looks like these are kind of uh an outward section and remote
so we're not gonna go out there we're gonna go like i said out here and see what's going on
next tip i have definitely dress in layers so i would say if you recommend april or
fall definitely dress in layers because we've had to like put our jackets and flannel on
we're gonna try to do this trail back here in devil's garden called landscape and i
think that there's also a side trip to pine tree and tunnel trails as well so we're gonna
give it a whirl it's definitely windy but this is so close you get to go into this tunnel
to the right it lands to the left so let's go to the right maybe we'll loop
okay we made it to town i thought we were walking through channel art
earlier but now we made it to actually two arches there's one on the left it's just forming
and then of course one on the right that you can definitely see we just got a picture and it's so
pretty so go check out uh that on my instagram next up we're gonna go to pine tree i think it's
just right up here not very far this whole trail is like a mile in mile out so it's not a long one
a little bit of incline i haven't had any stairs so far and it's a very well-defined trail so
highly recommend beautiful views this quarter's over here in case maybe you're
wondering about any of the stuff that i'm used to filming or wearing or using it
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help me keep this channel running so now we're gonna go i think back here to this very back one
and it's the landscape arch so we're going to go up there and see what that looks like because i
other than like delicate arch and stuff and the windows i don't really know what any of
these look like i've never looked them up so this is kind of a treat this is what it
looks like i think it's called landscape landscape trail where this big old boulder
whoa so that at some point has probably fallen off the top of that that's like an iceberg landscape
which is this baby here and jeff said on this planet says that a part of it fell off in 1991
1991. that was really cool it was actually really neat to learn about the part that fell
off not even too long ago so that's kind of kind of crazy we are going to uh head
back very very windy very sandy we can see that there's some sorts around us but it's not lovely
right this trail was pretty cool pretty things to see him in the view is great it doesn't take too
terribly long i would imagine i'm not great with time we've been out of the car at least an hour
if you're gonna come down here and really take your time definitely bring some water
if you're gonna be in the summertime when it's hot always bring some water
uh but like right now it's very cool obviously very windy
i don't feel like i needed any water i drank some before we left um there are some inclines
no stairs no heights pretty manageable so definitely check this one out when you visit
y'all this place is just inspiring i mean especially throughout the outdoors i think that
your mouth is going to be dropped the entire time it's just every turn is picture perfect just like
when we went to the grand canyon i mean the first thing i did was like oh my gosh i see it it's real
and it's beautiful and it's huge i just can't get over how beautiful these national parks are
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