Arches National Park, Utah
Delicate Arch -- Nearly every license plate from the state of Utah bears an image of this consummate American icon, the eroding sandstone fin perching at the edge of a wind-swept cliff, looking onto the La Sal Mountains.
Reached by a vigorous, unsheltered 1.5-mile hike over an ancient sand dune that has long been turned to stone, I visited this fantastic site repeatedly between 1992 and 1999. (The photo above was likely taken in 1993.) For all my love of the Nordic and Austral coastal ranges -- fjords, lochs and tarns, shadowed by glacier-capped peaks and lined with lush temperate rain forests and verdant meadows -- this spot in the sandstone desert canyons of the American southwest remains one of my favorite haunts on earth.
This photos was taken with the Canon Elan, 35-80mm zoom, 200 ISO film scanned onto Kodak PhotoCD.
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