Arches National Park: Double-O Arch

The hike out to Double-O Arch was as amazing as the destination, so here are way too many pictures.  We left Landscape Arch and headed down the trail:

Here's where we come to our first fin that we hike up as part of the trail.  In places it was hard to tell whether we were supposed to hike on fins or between them, on this one we accidentally set off between them and then retraced when we saw a more savvy hiker saunter right up (it's the lower fin on the left):

Looking back at where we just came from:

This fin was the coolest one that we hiked along.  Drop-offs on both sides, but amazing views.  We don't know the guy ahead of us, but he gives perspective:

Looking back at Ed:

Somewhere down there is Black Arch, probably hidden in the shadows:

Coming to the end of the trail, the last part was tricky to find where we needed to go to get to the arch, but we figured it out eventually.  Some of the views as we were searching were pretty nice though, which is probably what distracted us from finding the trail more quickly!

Almost there, but I keep getting distracted:

Here we go!  That's me heading towards the lower of the "O"s, they are stacked one on top of the other

We climbed through the lower O and got this view of both Os from the other side, the smaller one is in the lower centre, it's dwarfed by the hugeness of the big O:

About to head back through the little O:

More arches coming up!