Day 5 Three times a charm! This morning we finally arrived early enough to be let into the park - though we were one of the last handful of vehicles to make the cut! The plan was to drive to the end of the park at the Devils Garden Trailhead and hike to some of the nearer arches their and then work our way back through the park to explore whatever we had missed the previous day. So much for plans. Our first “distraction” after passing the sites we had already visited yesterday, was the Fiery Furnace viewpoint. How could we pass up this parade of red rock “fins” jutting above the mesa. Next, we decided to enjoy the short hike to Sand Dune Arch and the unbroken Broken Arch. This hike to Broken Arch was especially noteworthy as it began with a walk across the open desert before reaching and paralleling the rock walls and formations from which Broken Arch arose. This intimacy with the landscape only served to enhance our appreciation of the destination arch. These initial explorations brought us to noon and looking for a place to lunch. Joe noticed a dirt road that led off the main park road that would take us to a place called Klondike Bluffs in an isolated area in the most northwestern part of the park. And away we went. The road dropped away from the ridge and rock formations of the main road into Salt Valley before turning north and ran through a dry arroyo for a while before turning aside - which explained an earlier warning sign, “Unpassable when wet”. It eventually climbed toward the red Klondike bluffs - an isolated formation at the head of the valley. We pulled into the nearly vacant parking area planning to find a picnic spot off the Tower Arch trail, but were discouraged by the “Stay on Trails” signage. Joe suggested an even more obscure dirt road on the map that would lead to the backside of the bluffs and we decided to try it. A sign warning that the road was only passable by high clearance 4WD vehicles turned out to be accurate and we were forced to turn back before reaching the roadhead. We parked our vehicle at the bottom of the hill it could not climb, and hiked a short way up a small ridge and settled on a large flat rock for a leisurely lunch. After a failed attempt at a post-lunch siesta, we hiked back to the car, retraced our steps back to the main road and continued to our final park destination of the day: The Devils Garden Trailhead. The trail began with a narrow passage between high rock walls before winding among various massive rock formations that call images from the imagination. Here a wizened giant leaning on a walking stick, there a profile of a huge skull, Jabba the Hutt, counteless elephant heads, and is that Neo from the Matrix leaning back dodging bullets? - the human imagination responding to the creative imagination of Nature that shaped these stones. We walked the short side trail to the Tunnel and Pine Tree Arches before continuing on to our final arch of this visit - the iconic Landscape Arch. This long arch seemed more delicate than Delicate Arch, and had even experienced a massive loss of rock relatively recently when in 1991 a large slab sheared off. After another rockfall in 1995 the trail leading under the arch was closed. No matter, the dead end trail still provided dramatic views of the expansive stretch of stone. More than satisfied, we turned back toward the trailhead enjoying another perspective of the sculpted pillars and walls that lined the trail. Our drive back through the park provided a gratifying visual recap of our two days of exploration. We arrived at the Visitor Center ten minutes before closing - beating yesterday’s last minute stop by two minutes - just enough time to acquire the requisite National Park Passport stamps and other memorabilia. Back in Moab earlier than the previous days, we pursued an appetite for ice cream and enjoyed window shopping as we consumed our cold treats. Once back at the motel, we enjoyed leftovers for dinner and some down time - including writing this blog - and so ended day five.