Corona Arch

Corona Arch was the main attraction on our agenda for December 3.  It's a mile and a half each way.  The first point of interest was crossing this train track carved into the mountain:

Ed heads up the trail.  The light conditions are actually going to improve but we don't know that yet, so I'll show you just a couple of pics of the hike there, and we'll see more landscape from the way back later on.

We're here!  This isn't it though, this is Bowtie Arch, a pothole arch right beside Corona Arch.  It was formed when a pothole of water eroded into a cave below:

Here's Corona.  It's more elephant-trunk like to me, but whatever:

While we were there we had a nice surprise, a potash train chugged into view and made its way through the canyon:

Corona Arch from the other side:

These eroded holes on the far side of Corona Arch are said to look like Jabba the Hutt.  As the sole remaining North American who has not seen Star Wars, I couldn't tell you:

Another look at Bowtie Arch as we start moseying back.  Those guys in the foreground were doing some sort of rapping music video:

The light conditions are starting to improve, but we don't have time to hang around and wait, but here's another look at Corona as we head back:

Corona arch is in the one below too, you can hardly see it but it's towards the centre left:

Ed on the trail as the landscape lights up:

We were done the hike sooner than we expected, so we headed back down the road to try another trailhead we had stumbled upon earlier in the day.