There is something special about natural arches. The kind of rock that makes up the northern coat in Spain seems to favor them.
Related to this, on the trail Wynette and I got to talking about Edward Abbey and how we didn’t know each other when we were young but we read a lot of the same books. Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” is about his time as a ranger in Arches National Park. We also read, in common but before we met, Hugh Prather and Tom Robbins.