Slots

It’s a shame that we only have one day for hiking in Grand Staircase-Escalante, the largest national monument in the country with more than 1.8 million acres in its boundaries. But at least we found a great spot to explore: the slots near Dry Fork Wash, including Peekaboo and Spooky Gulch. And today was the day.

New friends Tom and Peggy, whom we met in Captiol Reef National Park, suggested insisted that we hike these slot canyons off Hole in the Rock Road. The road itself—a 50-mile teeth-knocker down to Lake Powell—deserves mention. We drove only 26 miles before turning on BLM road 252 for Dry Fork Wash; it took us more than 90 minutes and subtracted at least 5 years from our truck’s life. 

But Tom and Peggy were right: these easy (no ropes required) slot canyons proved to be magnificent. Please click through to see some of what we saw, and I will upload more when Rex unloads the photos from his camera.