Arches National Park In Moab Utah is Amazing - Walking To Balanced Rock & Indiana Jones Double Arch
Arches National Park June 2022
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welcome everyone adam the woo here has
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the recording of this monday june 6
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2022 if you're wondering what that
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rattling around in my hand is this paper
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a little flyer for
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arches national
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park which i am just a few miles from my
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parents and myself will be venturing in
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with my car i'll be driving through
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paying the admission fee
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and going to a place i have never been
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see some arches see some natural beauty
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enjoy the heat it is a little little
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warm a little toasty today
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and i bring this up because you have to
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have a reservation to get in a timed
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entry they call it to go online book it
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and it's two dollars the curious and
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unusual thing is you cannot pay
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admission
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to the national park along with the two
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dollars you have to pay that at the gate
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but i paid the two bucks got my timed
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entry
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and rolling in i'm inviting you to join
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me with that waterfall back there in the
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mountains
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a butte is that a butte
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or is that a mesa or is it just a
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mountain
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join me shall you and just to make sure
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i have a full tank of gas before heading
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in i don't know how much driving i'm
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going to be doing around in there needed
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a little fuel so stopped at this
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maverick where gas is four dollars and
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eighty
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four cents a gallon now the reservation
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we have is for nine am
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a little bit of a little bit of traffic
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here going in and once you're in you do
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not have to leave at an appropriate time
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you can stay in there all day till they
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close at five
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so if you have a 9 a.m reservation like
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i got
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stay in all day if you have 11 a.m
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reservation you could still stay till 5.
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also should note that i first pulled in
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a few hundred yards back it said a
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two-hour wait
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and then another 50 yards up or 100
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yards up it said one hour wait
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i'm gonna guess we're probably gonna
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wait 20 minutes
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but if i would have got a reservation
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later in the day even with the timed
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i would have waited a lot longer than
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getting here early at nine a.m and dad
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and i were just noticing there is a
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survey crew over here to the side taking
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surveys
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just asking people that are leaving
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what'd you think of the national park
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we're taking a survey
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taking a survey right now
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so someone just did a u-turn though i
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don't think they had a timed reservation
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i look at these washboards over here it
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says have your timed entry ticket ready
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to scan
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and
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i need to have my photo id
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or and or park pass
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payment ready do i have a park pass
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i do have my photo id
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we'll make the payment to get in
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here it comes almost to the front here
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are the price points because i have a
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private vehicle
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i will be paying thirty dollars if i had
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a motorcycle would be 25
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per person 15.
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okay there's three of us in here so is
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it going to be 45 or is it going to be
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30
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30.
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you're saying 30
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oh walk-in and bicycle
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if i was right we were all riding bikes
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it'd be 45 what if we were having what
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if we had a bike rack on the back of our
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car
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i wonder if they would charge us for the
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private vehicle and
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her bike all right that took about 20 20
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minutes or so
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and gone up this elevation
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and into the national park that's the
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length of cars
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that was about a 20 minute wait
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but the signs it said one or two hour
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wait one was about here and the other
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one was way back here even with the
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timed entry
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that was
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the way it goes and then up here you're
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gonna be
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going up this road
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to see some very iconic
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rocks
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in fact already seeing some very
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interesting formations
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just so fascinating
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looking at the guide map for a general
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layout of the land here you see the
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the red line there it says the entrance
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station
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and just shows
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all the markings and the landmarks
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gonna be going past all the way up and
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into arches
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the sheer height of these is incredible
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just looking at the vehicles below it
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and there are lots of different areas
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you can pull your car off of
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plenty of parking all scattered through
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that park
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this is referred to as park avenue
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there's even hiking trails on the bottom
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there
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amazing
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you're wearing a beach bum life shirt
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yep
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nowhere near the beach
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we have an amazing creator
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who made this
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not everybody believes in god
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but when i see things like this i see
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his hand
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at work in our world
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this little pull-off is known as the
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lasalle mountain viewpoint guessing that
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is the lasalle mountains
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over there
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this shows some of the names so you got
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the organ
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tower of babel sheep rock and the
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gossips
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which would be
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off to the side
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of this one
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right over there
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so
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no not the gossips three gossips
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sheep rock
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tower babel
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and the organ
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this is
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the organ and tower of apple right here
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i hope we're in the frame
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not gonna be awkward
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this is the big the foot view
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get the best get the best view in the
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whole vehicle
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now according to this
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says the rise and fall of an arch so
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there used to be an arch
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well it says possible
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fallen arch was there and possible
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fallen arch was there referring
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to this section here
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yes
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which is located right here that looks
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kind of like
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a sheep's head
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or a sheep yeah the sheep looking that
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way
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there possibly was an arch here
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that had that fell many years ago
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now my interpretation would be a cow but
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i guess that does look like a sheep
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there are a lot of sheep
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and cows that
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have that same kind of formation the
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face and the body style
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sheep
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a rock placard there states ancient sand
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dunes
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that was like a parade of sorts it was
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about six or seven cars and then now no
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cars
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feel like you're in an old western yeah
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i do
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roy rogers days waiting for john wayne
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to pull up on the stagecoach get in
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pilgrim
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off at another
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pull-off parking lot area walked a few
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feet up the trail
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to a spectacular view all these were
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spectacular views
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and you know how these you notice how
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these rocks
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are balancing on each other
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well that magnitude size wise is nothing
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compared to this
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balancing
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rock a huge boulder
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on top of another
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rectangular rock formation
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and according to the placard on the way
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in there used to be another rock
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off to the side down the hill called
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chip off the old block
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that fell over in the 70s but this one
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still standing
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action pose
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the it's
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stay up there rock
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over time
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yeah there was another one in the 70s
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that was next to it that was smaller
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that fell off i was reading the
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information on the way in you don't want
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to be around that falls off an
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earthquake through here would not be
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good but i wanted to just show
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see the other people walking around over
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here
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how teeny tiny they are in comparison
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this says you are here
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okay this is the double arch
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as stated right there double r says
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using cleats micro spikes or other
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traction devices suggested on icy and
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snow packed trails there is no snow
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thankfully all i have is my tennis shoes
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on
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but that is the double arch
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from indiana jones on alaska's site how
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cool is that
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of course you know i got a sort of movie
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reference i mean
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and i see a bunch of people up there
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that look like little ants
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size ratio wise now from here
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you can definitely see how
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the arches are prevalent
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i'm wondering what it's going to be like
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climbing up hiking up there
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up this trail getting a little bit
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closer
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what do you think mama i just
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wow
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that's all i can say
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all you can say is wow
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and we're gonna go we're gonna be able
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to walk right up underneath the arches
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yeah
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some have climbed up there
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into that little cavern cavernous area
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this is about the angle there's a behind
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the scenes photo river phoenix kind of
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about in this area seems like a lot of
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people congregated over here in the
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shade which is a good idea the sun is
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very
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very prominent today
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get out of the elements for a bit all
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right there's the photo of river phoenix
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behind the scenes from indiana jones on
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the last crusade
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kind of at the bottom of the arches
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looking up
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pretty dang
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i'm underneath the double arches right
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now
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away from the sun
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the sun's right there
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but the arch is blocking it giving it a
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little shade
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looking back down at the pathway
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elevated okay
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i have now made it up to this window
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looking down
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wow not a lot of footing here
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but i've kind of
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kind of made it work oh
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right right here on i am on
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the edge
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not the edge of glory like lady gaga
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sang about but whatever another movie
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quote whatever you do
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don't look down
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because that last step first step
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is
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a doozy
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there's my torso shadow here and then
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there's the
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long winded shadow
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down there waving
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okay i think that's good enough for this
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little window looking looking down i'm
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gonna go back down
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now how do i get down one last look at
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the double arch
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heading down the trail back to the
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parking area
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i do want to walk over
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journey over to that window as well that
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arch it's a single arch not a double one
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but
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off in the distance there's another one
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one or two over there and i've seen
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quite a few signs at the parking area
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about staying hydrated drinking plenty
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of water we bought a case of water had
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it in the back seat
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it's a good thing you want to stay
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hydrated because it is you get very
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dehydrated
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and thirsty out here so can't prepare
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neat thing about this area is you get
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lots of different viewpoints driving
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around the road to different different
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areas you can see all these formations
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from different
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perspectives
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and another quick view there of the icy
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peaks of those mountains
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i'm noticing a lot of the teetering
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rocks is a theme out here you see
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there's another one kind of teetering up
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and then the
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balancing rock
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pulled the roof off over there from a
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different perspective
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there's one
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and then
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don't forget about that one
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kind of looks like a
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i was gonna say a boomerang but looks
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like one of those paper footballs
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that you would make and you would like
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hit it with your finger and try to get
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it through the field goals that person
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on the other side of the table's holding
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doesn't look like that
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it does
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it's paper football rock
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now from this angle
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delicate arch is way up there
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it's about a mile or so hike from a
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different drop-off point we opted out of
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hiking to that one there is a viewpoint
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from here
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right there in the center of the screen
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delicate arch
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zooming extreme close-up
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carved in sandstone this freestanding
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arch is composed mostly of slick rock
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member the top is five thick
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five foot thick layer of moab tongue
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33 feet high
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no 45 feet wide
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45 feet high and 33
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feet
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wide
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this is the unzoomed end version it's
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way up there it's also given the neck
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nickname cowboy chaps or old maids
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bloomers also out here is the wolf cabin
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john wesley wolf and his son fred
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settled the banks of saltwash in
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1898 and some of their ranch is still at
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her cabin and everything just to clarify
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it's very toasty i think it's about 89
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degrees and the sun there's not a lot of
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clouds blocking the sun and we have
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well didn't bring any
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suntan lotion
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but i brought a lot of water so i guess
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i got one
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i got two of the three
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but we're in and out of the car so we're
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doing okay
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definitely water
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is a must
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person next to me agreed with me
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and the remnants of where the animals
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were
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oh look at this
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it's like something a horse would pull
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like part of an old
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carriage or an old
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this is so awesome
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just picture this in a western
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with the rock formations back here
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quintessential
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textbook i guess that's the word i'm
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looking for
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got some spider webs some cobwebs
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accumulating there
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on the other side as well
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and on to the fiery furnace
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do not go beyond this fence line
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and my interpretation probably why it's
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called the fiery furnace as it reminds
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me because the reddish hue
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of a fire and almost looks like flames
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and contrary to its name the fiery
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furnace is not a hot place it's named
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for the warm glow seen on the rocks in
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late afternoon
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the fiery furnace is actually a maze of
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cool
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shady canyons between towering sandstone
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walls
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i was reading on the sign in order to
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hike down to this one you have to have a
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permit
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so evidently those who are down there
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they have a permit
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to hike down there
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and this kind of just shows
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the expansiveness i mean all this kind
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of shows the expansiveness but just
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take a look at just how
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much property
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and how big this national park is just
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from this one angle and i'm just now
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noticing not only mom has a beach shirt
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on you have an appropriate beach cap on
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yes the daytona beach you have the
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daytona beach cap
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it's just beach life out here in the
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desert in the desert
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and on to skyline
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arch
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go up these stairs
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get the view of skyline arch
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see a few people are hiking out to i
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don't know if we're going to hike out to
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this one either
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i do want to show the perspective of it
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from here though
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the trailhead and
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the arch
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off of this really good this national
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park does not get its name because it
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does not have arches it certainly does
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you definitely see why they're also
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called windows
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windows to the sky
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and this area is known as devil's garden
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it's kind of a big circle around
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i guess i guess you could consider this
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the end
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of the drivable portion of the park so
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we're going to circle around here
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devil's garden
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and head back towards the front
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so we saw the garden of eden
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now we're seeing the devils guarded
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once again the big the foot camp
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it's been about four hours in there it's
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about 110 115 got in about 9 15. you
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know why the trash cans have these type
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of
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layers because of the bears
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duh bears
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now there is a sign saying that these
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might be a little warm
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because they're made out of metal
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is it hot no
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oh this is pretty neat there they even
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have an arch inside
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the visitor center you can walk through
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the archway here too
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so you got the fake rock here and then
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outside the window you got the real rock
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that's pretty neat
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got the archway and everything
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a lot of people inside the gift shop
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here and in the visitor center
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yeah one could say this is a
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oh i was gonna say this place is a real
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beehive of activity yes
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we're in the beehive state
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as well
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that goatus goat slash ram is surveying
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it's terrain and that's gonna do it for
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today from the national park
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not all of them but just one in
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particular arches
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national park
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it was awesome i'll see the next video
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the vlog
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is over