This is Delicate Arch, one of Utah’s state symbols and a popular tourist site in Arches National Park- if you can get to it.
The actual reality is that this arch stands at the top of a 3-mile hike up a mountainside that doesn’t even look like a mountain until one realizes the climate zone has changed mid-hike, too far up to turn back and too far down to see any of the arches, caves and bluffs which make up this famous national park.
Despite the climb, despite the deception of nature and the tourist guide information, to see Delicate Arch is worth every gasp for air and every blister formed from crawling on hands and knees up sheets of slate (or what looks like slate to the inexperienced, and unprepared, climber). Even though all this cannot be seen in this photo, what is seen is a victorious, and tired, smile of a young college student who just climbed her first mountain- and the foot of a little brother she only just met and now bonded with for life.