Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Klondike Bluffs is a semi-remote area...

of Arches National Park, accessible only by wash-boarded gravel road, and is consequently devoid of most tourists. Therefore it's a perfect place to hike.

Here, a helpful cairn is seen in the foreground of the deeply jointed Entrada Sandstone (Jurassic) on the western flank of the Salt Valley anticline (click to enlarge).

You have to pass the Marching Men and traverse an eolian dune:
in order to get to the main objective, Tower Arch, shown below:

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