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Hiking through a narrow slot canyon is always a great experience. Water flowing through these narrow channels carves interesting shapes into the canyon walls and light filtering down from the top of the canyon both emphasizes and changes the color of the rock walls and varies with the time of the day.

Hiking through a narrow slot canyon is always a great experience. Water flowing through these narrow channels carves interesting shapes into the canyon walls and light filtering down from the top of the canyon both emphasizes and changes the color of the rock walls and varies with the time of the day.

North Coyote Buttes
Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area
Arizona

Hiking through a narrow slot canyon is always a great experience. Water flowing through these narrow channels carves interesting shapes into the canyon walls and light filtering down from the top of the canyon both emphasizes and changes the color of the rock walls and varies with the time of the day.

Hiking through a narrow slot canyon is always a great experience. Water flowing through these narrow channels carves interesting shapes into the canyon walls and light filtering down from the top of the canyon both emphasizes and changes the color of the rock walls and varies with the time of the day.

A tree trunk, wedged between the walls of Wire Pass Slot Canyon, attests to the height of water that sometimes flows through this canyon and a visual warning of why not to enter such places whenever there is a chance of a flash flood.

The entrance to Wire Pass slot canyon in southern Utah is reached after hiking about a mile (from the trailhead) in a creek bed mostly filled with soft sand and scattered boulders