Day 2

Sunday, March 22, was spent hiking through the Windows Area in Arches National Park for sunrise. A nearly 8-mile hike to Navajo Arch followed that, and a 2-mile to Delicate Arch finished the day.

A flower absorbs the early rays of sunshine.

Sunrise

Every adventurer has her gear – and plenty of water!

Cara Jaskiewicz, a senior public relations student at West Virginia University, captures the sunset with her own camera.

Make sure to look up, too!

Birds perch on a rock at sunrise.

Don’t step on the cryptobiotic soil!

Sunrise

Sunrise through an arch

The road to nowhere or somewhere? Just make sure to stop and smell the cryptobiotic soil!

The road to nowhere or somewhere?

Let’s look where we just were.

Let’s look at where we were looking at where we were looking.

Rock on.

Let’s go on an adventure!

A shadow of time

Playing with Lightroom a little bit.

Playing with Lightroom again.

Navajo hike

No edit to this beautiful rock face

No edit to this ridge, either.

Jen Skinner hikes up to Navajo Arch. She’s a freshman at WVU.

A little view of my view

Baby, we made it.

Hello, world.

How’s it goin’ down there?

A little stop by the Navajo Arch.

Midday.

The hike up to the Delicate arch provided some beautiful views that led up to an even better one.

This one is obviously edited, but I had fun bringing out the different colors and highlighting the vastness of the landscape.

Also, I wanted to see some wildlife, which I know isn’t too abundant in the desert. That’s why I was so elated to see a chipmunk…and then two! They scattered away rather quickly, but I managed to get a few shots of the pair.