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Page Slot Canyons

Slot Canyons

When cracks in sandstone erode in repeated heavy rains, deep and very narrow canyons can form. Some of the best examples in the world form at Page, Arizona, near the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Slot Canyon Country

The canyons are on Navajo land near Page

A side canyon with this classic hoodoos
The dark volcanic top layer provides caps for many of the hoodoos
We croosed this small bridge getting to Water Holes
This is a wash exiting a slot canyon

Into the Slot

Slot canyons can be dangerous places. On August 12, 1997, these European tourists died in a flash flood when a storm upstream, undetected at this entrance, suddenly filled the canyon with blue skies above.

Today there is a warning system in place for storms upstream
At the top of the lower stairway, the top of the plateau is visible
…which runs beside the original Navajo footholds carved thousands of years ago

Horseshoe Bend

This famous bend in the Colorado is not far from the slot canyons

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