We again ate in the Visitor Center parking lot then drove to the Landscape Arch parking area. It was packed. And it was Monday. Does anyone work anymore? We hiked to the arch which was spectacular. It is amazing it hasn't crumbled totally. I loved the sign that showed how a huge chunk of it fell on Sept 1 1991 (or 1990). That would have been amazing to see. Then then continued on for the "difficult and technical" hike through the desert where we saw several other arches, beautiful flowers, birds and other assorted things. There were also many bright red super-sun-burned tourists staggering around looking like they were going to expire at any moment. Yikes! It was blazing hot for sure.
Returning to the parking lot, I made a bee-line to the water faucet and doused my head. It was truly baking out. In fact, it was so hot, our feet and hands were swollen. What's up with that?
We went back to the camper, had some lunch and cooled off. It is amazing that thing is so well-insulated. What a great refuge to have with us.
After a while, we drove to the fiery furnace (gluttons for punishment) to do a hike through this wacky maze of desert sandstone towers. In the fiery furnace, there was a lot scrambling, finding dead-ends, climbing and poison ivy. And contrary to the name of the place, it was actually pleasant temperature-wise.
After a while, we found our way out of the furnace and drove to the Colorado National Monument. We would spent our last day of vacation here climbing the infamous Otto's Route.
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