AUSTIN SIERRA CLUB OUTINGS PHOTO GALLERY
Escalante/Staircase National Monument Trip, Arizona/Utah
At the end of May, 2001, twenty-two Club members explored the slot canyons of the Escalante/Staircase National Monument. These are some of the photos taken on that trip.
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1. Antelope Canyon is located near Page, Arizona. This was our first slot canyon for the trip and one of the most spectacular canyons in the Southwest.
2. Another view of Antelope Canyon. The canyon lies on Navajo land and is owned by the Begay family.
3. Another view of Antelope Canyon..One participant remarked that entering this canyon was like walking into a Georgia O'Keefe painting.
4. Antelope Canyon. All of these photos were taken in the lower canyon(we saved the upper canyon for another trip). The entrance to the canyon is through a narrow cleft in the Navajo sandstone which broadens and deepens almost immediately. The owners have placed metal steps in the sections of the canyon where you used to have to have ropes to get down the boulder-falls.
5. Photographers in the Canyon. Cindy and Wade prepare to shoot the canyon. The canyon is a photographer's wonderland, with each section revealing different shapes, forms, light and shadow. Because the canyon is so narrow, the light changes almost from minute to minute.
6. Wire Pass hikers take a photo break just before entering Wire Pass Slot canyon, part of the Paria River watershed in Southern Utah.
7. Wire Pass hikers admire a stump wedged high in the walls of the slot canyon by a previous flash flood.
8. Inside Willis Creek canyon,one of the most scenic of the slots in the Escalante/Staircase area, close to Kodachrome State Park and Bryce Canyon National Park.
9. A pouroff downstream from the narrows shows Willis Creek in action as it continues to erode the rocks of the canyon.
10. A three-mile hike through an interesting canyon near the Escalante River brings the hot and dusty hiker to Lower Calf Creek Falls, one of the most spectacular and refreshing water features of the northern Escalante/Staircase area. The falls is 126 feet high and is icy cold even on the hottest days.
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