Into The Great Wide Open

Last week, I was in Utah for a soccer game and a little R&R. So I’ll share the pictures and story of my trip over several posts. The first stop of the trip was Salt Lake City for the first leg of the Rocky Mountain Cup between Colorado Rapids and Real Salt Lake. This is a bitter rivalry that did not end well for the Rapids. RSL won 1-0 in stoppage time on a goal that was clearly offside. The Rapids have been snakebitten against RSL in recent years. As fans, we were waiting for something bad to happen as the clock hit the 90th minute. Hats off to the Rapids players. After such a bitter defeat, they still took the time to acknowledge the fans that made the road trip.

The next day, I drove to Arches National Park. I found a campsite outside the park, and then went for a hike in the park. The first stop was Delicate Arch. I had done this hike before in 2005, but I wanted to revisit it when there was snow on the mountains. I figured it would add to the already beautiful scenery. That it did. Here are the pictures from the hike.


Delicate Arch with the snow covered La Sal Mountains



Delicate Arch with one of the Window Arches in the distance




Delicate Arch from Frame Arch







Frame Arch






Me and a different view of Delicate Arch






View from inside Echo Arch





Echo Arch








After the hike, I had some time to kill so I stopped off at one of my favorite arches.




Double Arch





Sunset from Double Arch






More to come…

-MM