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How tall is the arch?
sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.64.178 ( talk) 17:31, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
Each image should add something to the article... the page seems to be just too damn crowded, no? Bb3cxv 16:17, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree too: However the picture of the rope "gouges" speaks a thousand words and is different from all the other just "basic" postcard pictures of DA. It definitely adds to the article.
Professional Climbing Dean Potter recently climbed Delicate Arch -- it was understood to be forbidden, but now has been explicitly banned. See http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3800468?source=rss, http://www.nps.gov/arch/pphtml/newsdetail23210.html, and http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_129175821.html, boyatmic 02:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
How about a section that details how the arch is currently understood to have formed? Even just a minor sentence or two about the type of rock and how it was eroded to form it's unique shape. Dallas 04:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
If there is anyone with an understanding of the trail route to Delicate Arch, I would be interested to know if the route has changed since 1977. I was 11 then and my parents do not remember the ledge with the dropoff in the last yards of the trail. 71.188.241.119 03:09, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
My family has visited Delicate Arch three times since Thanksgiving of 2005. The initial climb from the ranch parking lot is unchanged. The path over the exposed sandstone hill is mostly a wandering path, loosely marked by cairns. The path across the top of the plateau does wander, according to dry or wet conditions but the last 300 yards seem to be well established. That portion of the hike brings you directly from the north of the arch and behind the remnant wall on that side. It effectively blocks the arch from view until you are actually emerging from beind the wall at the northwest lip of the bowl beneath the arch. Your first view is nearly face-on with the La Salles behind the arch. You don't get any impression of the erosion bowl at the foot of the arch until you walk directly to the lip. It is still possible to approach directly from the west side, and view the bowl and side-long view of the arch together for nearly two hundred yards. But that is obviously not a preferred route as rock cairns could not be found in that area on any of our visits. We have never met others on that walk across the plateau, while as many as a hundred people can be seen on the northerly path to the ledge view. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.201.208.14 ( talk) 20:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Having taken a look at the website [ [1]] the section "The Hike to the Arch" looks suspiciously like a direct copy of this website. I could not at this stage detect whether the website was a mirror of our Wikipedia article. I need a second opinion on this and possibly help in rewriting that section. Have already edited the description of the shape which also was part of the above cited website. Dieter Simon ( talk) 00:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Please add somewhere that the elevation gain over the 1.5 mile hike to Delicate Arch is 480 feet.
Utah.com, us-parks.com, and a number of other sites, all attest to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TulsaDavid ( talk • contribs) 14:51, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
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How tall is the arch?
sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.64.178 ( talk) 17:31, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
Each image should add something to the article... the page seems to be just too damn crowded, no? Bb3cxv 16:17, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree too: However the picture of the rope "gouges" speaks a thousand words and is different from all the other just "basic" postcard pictures of DA. It definitely adds to the article.
Professional Climbing Dean Potter recently climbed Delicate Arch -- it was understood to be forbidden, but now has been explicitly banned. See http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3800468?source=rss, http://www.nps.gov/arch/pphtml/newsdetail23210.html, and http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_129175821.html, boyatmic 02:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
How about a section that details how the arch is currently understood to have formed? Even just a minor sentence or two about the type of rock and how it was eroded to form it's unique shape. Dallas 04:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
If there is anyone with an understanding of the trail route to Delicate Arch, I would be interested to know if the route has changed since 1977. I was 11 then and my parents do not remember the ledge with the dropoff in the last yards of the trail. 71.188.241.119 03:09, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
My family has visited Delicate Arch three times since Thanksgiving of 2005. The initial climb from the ranch parking lot is unchanged. The path over the exposed sandstone hill is mostly a wandering path, loosely marked by cairns. The path across the top of the plateau does wander, according to dry or wet conditions but the last 300 yards seem to be well established. That portion of the hike brings you directly from the north of the arch and behind the remnant wall on that side. It effectively blocks the arch from view until you are actually emerging from beind the wall at the northwest lip of the bowl beneath the arch. Your first view is nearly face-on with the La Salles behind the arch. You don't get any impression of the erosion bowl at the foot of the arch until you walk directly to the lip. It is still possible to approach directly from the west side, and view the bowl and side-long view of the arch together for nearly two hundred yards. But that is obviously not a preferred route as rock cairns could not be found in that area on any of our visits. We have never met others on that walk across the plateau, while as many as a hundred people can be seen on the northerly path to the ledge view. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.201.208.14 ( talk) 20:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Having taken a look at the website [ [1]] the section "The Hike to the Arch" looks suspiciously like a direct copy of this website. I could not at this stage detect whether the website was a mirror of our Wikipedia article. I need a second opinion on this and possibly help in rewriting that section. Have already edited the description of the shape which also was part of the above cited website. Dieter Simon ( talk) 00:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Please add somewhere that the elevation gain over the 1.5 mile hike to Delicate Arch is 480 feet.
Utah.com, us-parks.com, and a number of other sites, all attest to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TulsaDavid ( talk • contribs) 14:51, 25 November 2011 (UTC)