Day 2 - Iowa 2007

We woke up early the next morning and went on a few hikes of the canyonlands area called needles. It is a number of rock formations that are tall and skinny and have many diffrent colors. We also stopped at an old granery of the pueblo indians in the park. All the hikes were relativly short since we wanted to head to Arches National Park. On our way out of Canyonlands we ran into the mass heard of turkeys again. We then went thru Moab to get to arches. In arches we took the first loop trail that runs by 3 arches. This was neat because they are all withing climbing distance. And man was it getting hot. After these three we stopped at the overlook for the second arch which is the most famous one and on the utah licensplate. It was too hot to hike up to it maybe another trip. The last arch we went to see was called landscape, it is huge but very skinny looks like it could fall any day. The hike was a mix of hot suny areas and cool shady parts between the pilars of rocks. After this we started out to head into salt lake city. We took 6 into provo then decided to take a side route up to Park City to see the ski resort. There are some amazing houses in this area. We stopped at the resort and they have some rides so we decided to try some. The two we tried are called the slide and coaster.


The slide you take the chair lift up to the top then sit in this sled type thing with a break and you go down a tobagin type ride all the way to the bottom. Bit scary but fun. The coaster you get in a single car roller coaster type thing with a break again and it pulls you up to the top. Once at the top only one way to go is down, it has twists and turns a bridge some dips and you control the speed. Very wild, I went slow but Quinn had a blast with joe, they were cruisin. We are now in downtown Salt Lake City for the night. On to Yellowstone tommorrow.