Day 9, part 2: (handstands and sheer rock)

We hiked up to Delicate Arch (which is not that difficult a climb; I suggest it if you are in the Moab area). Kayla was having difficulties from having stepped on a cactus a few days previous in the Grand Canyon (oops, forgot to mention that, didn’t I?), but we got up there before the rain. Kayla realized when we hit the basin that it was easier to walk on the rock without her flats on (the only shoes she brought, sadly), so we frogwalked down one of the surfaces of the basin to come up on the opposite side of the arch. We saw something I don’t think many visitors of the arch see, and it is the sheer cliff that drops off not far beyond the arch. When there was water here (had the water been what shaped the rock), it must have swirled around and off of this cliff. It was an unimaginable idea, to think that water or wind had made the rock look the way that it did. Rock is… rock. How can wind carve such a thing?

Here’s a decent panorama of the basin.