Day 13: Saturday, September 16, 2006
Jason got up early this morning and went to Arches National Park to get us a camping reservation for tonight so that we could camp up there in the tents. He spent the evening being wind blown in his tent while we just felt the wind whistling though the cracks in our cabin... Brr it was a cold night
We checked out of the Moab KOA after a hearty breakfast, and went to the visitors centre* at the park to check out the various hiking trails there and also got Lana’s passport book stamped.
After we got to our campsite and registered we decided to go on the hike out to the Devil’s Garden area. The map said that it is about a 7 mile hike, but we took a lot of side hikes along the way to see more of the arches. The hike was great and after the first mile we were able to leave the more “touristy” part of the trail and venture off into “real” hiking. Well, real hiking meaning that we still had cairns to follow along the trail but it was a bit more challenging and there were not as many people along the trail.
The Arch’s that we saw along the way were; Tunnel Arch, Pine Tree Arch, Landscape Arch, Partition Arch, Wall Arch, Navajo Arch, Double O Arch, Dark Angel and Private Arch.
After getting back to our camp site we set up the tents and started dinner. Jason made us his special hamburgers ;-), and we had corn on the cob roasted in the coals (mmmm yummy and good idea Lana). I tried to turn over one of the hamburgers to see if it was cooked and uhm “dropped” it in the fire... needless to say that was now “my” special hamburger and I didn’t try my hand at flipping any more burgers… Ahh campfire cooking, what can I say? ;-)
The temperature all day had seemed to be warm to cool, I think mainly due to the wind, but after the sun went down it got really chilly. We were very grateful that we were allowed to have a campfire at our site and spent the next few hours in fellowship.
Lana had the very good idea of warming up some medium sized rocks in the fire pit just before we went to bed, (she had read in a book somewhere that that is how people used to stay warm). So right when we went to bed we grabbed some towels and wrapped the rocks in them and put them in our sleeping bags. WOW, did they keep our feet nice and toasty warm. Unfortunately they were only at our feet and as the night crept onwards and the temperature dropped so did our body temperature and it was really hard to sleep as it was sooooo cold.
- Tanya
* Centre: Aussie spelling for center
We checked out of the Moab KOA after a hearty breakfast, and went to the visitors centre* at the park to check out the various hiking trails there and also got Lana’s passport book stamped.
After we got to our campsite and registered we decided to go on the hike out to the Devil’s Garden area. The map said that it is about a 7 mile hike, but we took a lot of side hikes along the way to see more of the arches. The hike was great and after the first mile we were able to leave the more “touristy” part of the trail and venture off into “real” hiking. Well, real hiking meaning that we still had cairns to follow along the trail but it was a bit more challenging and there were not as many people along the trail.
The Arch’s that we saw along the way were; Tunnel Arch, Pine Tree Arch, Landscape Arch, Partition Arch, Wall Arch, Navajo Arch, Double O Arch, Dark Angel and Private Arch.
After getting back to our camp site we set up the tents and started dinner. Jason made us his special hamburgers ;-), and we had corn on the cob roasted in the coals (mmmm yummy and good idea Lana). I tried to turn over one of the hamburgers to see if it was cooked and uhm “dropped” it in the fire... needless to say that was now “my” special hamburger and I didn’t try my hand at flipping any more burgers… Ahh campfire cooking, what can I say? ;-)
The temperature all day had seemed to be warm to cool, I think mainly due to the wind, but after the sun went down it got really chilly. We were very grateful that we were allowed to have a campfire at our site and spent the next few hours in fellowship.
Lana had the very good idea of warming up some medium sized rocks in the fire pit just before we went to bed, (she had read in a book somewhere that that is how people used to stay warm). So right when we went to bed we grabbed some towels and wrapped the rocks in them and put them in our sleeping bags. WOW, did they keep our feet nice and toasty warm. Unfortunately they were only at our feet and as the night crept onwards and the temperature dropped so did our body temperature and it was really hard to sleep as it was sooooo cold.
- Tanya
* Centre: Aussie spelling for center
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