Lynn Sessions

We are hiking into Laurel and Hardy Arches when it begins raining. David and I take temporary shelter in a low alcove just large enough to sit upright in. As I crawl to a comfortable location, I take care to remove rocks large enough to hide scorpions or other unpleasant surprises. After a short but pleasant rain storm, I am preparing to leave when a rather flattened and crumpled scorpion crawls out from my sitting location and proceeds to limb to a safer local. That was good for a minute of belly laughing. Poor creature.

From Sheets Draw Arch it was about a hundred feet of walking along a stone ‘knife edge’ shelf in strong winds to the area above Laurel and Hardy Arches. One side was straight down for 300 feet while the other side would of been a hundred feet of bouncing off the steep rock slope before plunging several hundred feet off a cliff. We then found that we should have brought ropes to descend to the arches. Oh well.