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Originally Posted by signit98

...the nerve, didn't that arch know we were coming out there?

It probably did, that's why it went to pieces...

Seriously,

I find it funny now on other sites that people are clucking like hens about how unsafe it can be walking under an arch.

There are 1,000 - 1,500 foot sheer cliffs here. With no fences. There are tempertures that get up to 115 f. on a hot summer day. People ARE hurt and killed throughout the year for many different reasons in the parks. Falls, heat stroke & dehydration, getting lost, getting struck by lightning. Now I see that the trail is closed indefinitely until some bureaucrat say's it's OK... The chances of having an arch fall on you is so obscure it's ridiculous. If it does, it's like those people driving down I-70 and having a boulder come through the top of their car. It might happen, but the odds are very, very slim.

Do you know that long ago in Moab there was a man that lived in a shack by where the Colorado river bridge is today. One day they went out to find him and a gigantic boulder had sheered off a cliff and landed right on top of the shack.

Have you ever looked straight up from the climbing route called "30 seconds over Potash" on the Potash road? There is a huge boulder wedged in the cracks about 800 feet above the route, just waiting to fall... That's why it's called 30 seconds, might be 30 seconds, or 30,000 years.

I like it this way, unlike Colorado where it's fenced, or blocked off...