ALL THE ARCHES IN ARCHES NATIONAL PARK IN ONE DAY!

Описание: Arches National Park marathon, I had one day to be in Arches Park and I wanted to cover all the arches with accessible trails. I started at the Devils Garden trail loop which covers Landscape, Partititon, Navajo, Double-0, Private, Pine Tree and Tunnel Arch is an 8 mile loop that took me nearly 3 hrs to cover because is so beautiful and we stopped so many times for pictures. After I hopped in my car and drove a short distance to the Devils Garden campground where I had a reservation to camp the night and was able to park at that spot, which worked out great because the parking was limited in this area. From there I did Skyline, Tapestry, Broken and Sand Arch which was about a 3 mile loop fully exposed to the heat no shade on this trail. Then drove down to the Delicate Arch trail head, this spot was super busy, but they had plenty of parking spots. The Delicate Arch trail is 3 miles long and has almost 700 ft of vertical gain so is not super easy never the less there tons of people in this trail because is the most famous and beautiful arch in the park. I was feeling good still at this point and ran the whole way which made up on lost time. After I drove to the Windows and Double arch area which were super busy, took me a while to find parking here. I had to literally wait and follow someone as they were leaving to get their spot. Here I did the North and South Windows, Turret and Ribbon Arch which was the hardest one to find and navigate, I spent a lot of time looking for trail and with no GPS signal was super hard. After I got back to my car and decided to leave it there because parking again would be tough for Double Arch and it was fairly close. So from Windows parking lot went to Double Arch and Cave Arch which was directly behind it, but no one was visiting because is not listed on the map they give you at the entrance. Then had a short drive to Eye Of The Whale dirt road I had planned to drive a bit in the 4WD road, but road was rough and I didn't feel safe driving it so I ran the dirt road to the trail head and back it was a 5 mile round trip to Eye Of The Whale Arch, by this point it was starting to get late so I did as much running as possible. I got the the last trailhead for Ring Arch at 6 pm and it was starting to get dark. I planned to run it so I wasn't too concerned, but as I got off my car my calfs were cramping really bad. I streched them out, but I was still super stiff and couldn't run. I considered quitting and calling a day after all I had seen enough arches, but it was just one more. I decided to just walk and even if it got dark I would complete my mission. After a few minutes walking legs got loose again and was able to jog to the Ring Arch and see it right before it got dark. I enjoyed my way back just savoring what a great day it had been ALL ARCHES DONE IN ONE DAY!!!
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