rockin roadtrip

Awesome day on the road!  Spent a good part of the day in Arches National Park in Utah.  Man, this place is incredible, beautiful, awe-inspiring, and especially humbling.  When you see the magnatude and sheer size of these rock formations, it’s just unbelievable.

The photo above was taken while we were hiking up to the Landscape Arch, and we had to hike on some “primitive” trails like this: 

And looking behind you on this trail you see this: 

Arches is a little bit West of Grand Junction, Colorado.  The views of the many arch formations that can be seen while driving through the park simply take your breath away.  Here’s a shot of the Landscape Arch, which is well worth the hike up that trail I mentioned earlier:

Also hiked out to the Skyline Arch:

There are a ton of way cool rock formations that aren’t really arches, but just awesome to look at, like Park Avenue:

And Balanced Rock: (aptly named, don’t you think?)

There’s tons more, and I’ll probably be posting a gallery on my website of more shots from Arches from today, but along the way to Arches we saw  more cool things that I just could not resist photographing.  Here’s a few shots of them below:

Cool gas station that was probably the “place to be” in it’s prime:

A crazy guy scaling sheer rock!  Quickly grabbed my 300 mm lens to get some closer shots of him:

More cool formations:

Awesome bridge for the awesome bike trail that runs along the Colorado river:

There’s much more to see and do tomorrow as we start a new day on the rockin’ roadtrip.  Thanks for checking them out!