Life Like a Mix Tape

Shot taken at the Windows Section (Arches N.P.) looking south toward Turret Arch with the La Sal Mountains in the backdrop. The highest peak in the range is Mt. Peale at 12,721'. The second higest is Mount Tukuhnikivatz 12,489'. Tradition has it that the mountains were named by Silvestre Valez de Escalante, the Spanish missionary and explorer, who saw them during his expedition through Utah in 1776. He called them the Sierra La Sal, or "Salt Mountains" because he thought it unlikely that they could be covered with snow so late in the summer.