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After spending the night in Moab I drove to Dead Horsepoint State Park, payed seven bucks and was awarded with a great overview on Meander Canyon. Afterwards I proceeded to Canyonlands National Park, which is only a couple of miles away. Driving up there over the plateau is very scenic by itself, but of course the main attractions are the rock formations and canyons.
I drove down to Arches Nat'l Park today, started off at 5 AM and arrived at 9. Unfortunately, my hike took longer than expected, as I lost the trail at some point -- even though the trail was marked as "difficult", I simply can't believe that the national park administration expect one to climb a wall which would need either mountaineering equipment or take a freeclimber to succeed... I suspect that some prankster placed additional trail markers (a small pile of rocks) to confuse hikers. The folks coming from that direction, Frenchmen BTW, at least didn't know anything about three meter high walls of rock... Not wanting to waste another hour searching for the right directions I went back and tried a normal trail instead.