Chris: James and I made a quick trip to Moab and the surrounding area this spring, and I just got back the developed film. The light meter on this camera has never worked, so I have to either use an iPhone light meter app or estimate it myself. So a few are a bit off.
The high desert is unexpectedly beautiful, with a huge variety of flora. You can camp inside the park in certain areas, so we found a hidden wash and set up camp under sandstone cliffs. The park was great, but I found the nearby Corona Arch area more exciting: you can see a powered paraglider flying through Corona Arch near the end of the photos.
It turns out that arches don't generally erode in the middle, where you might expect, but at the inside of the base on each side, where I think the compressive stress is highest. That's not always the case though: the very thin Landscape Arch lost a huge section near the middle in 1991 due to rain soaking into the sandstone and adding weight. Finally, if you are standing next to an arch and flying a drone, and you tell the drone to home to your location by GPS, bad things will probably happen (wasn't us).
