It seems like I have spent a large part of my life coming and going through southern Utah. I have really enjoyed the variety and sheer dazzle of the out of doors there. Utah nature is hard to beat.
One of my favorite places is the Arches National Park. We have gone through several times, particularly back when we were looking for creative, scenic non-short cuts from LA to Michigan, when we lived there.
Here is Wall Arch, one of the most famous ones, which I remember relishing.
Well, all our arches fall, eventually, I guess. Here is the photo showing what happened August 11, when erosion and gravity took their toll.
Here is the way National Geographic described what happened.
August 11, 2008—In a scene out of a Road Runner cartoon, a soaring sandstone arch has plummeted to the floor of the Utah desert, forever altering an iconic American landscape. But neither Wile E. Coyote nor the Acme Corporation is being fingered for this collapse in Arches National Park.
Erosion—the same force that largely formed the park's arches—and gravity are the most likely culprits for the destruction of Wall Arch sometime last week.
"They all let go after a while," Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, told the Associated Press.
Wall Arch—shown at top in an undated photo and below on August 5, 2008—was more than three stories tall and spanned 71 feet (22 meters).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080811-arch-photo.html
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