We got up at the crack of dawn to be at the Vermillion cliffs ranger station to get in a lottery drawing to go into the Wave. It is this fabulous canyon that is so pristine they only let 20 people a day go in there. They do a lottery on the internet 4 months in advance for 10 and draw 10 names the day of. There were 75 people there this morning. Most were Europeans. We did not win a pass. So we went to another awesome narrows nearby instead. Wire pass narrows to Buckskin narrows. Really narrow, really, really , really deep. Every time I heard the wind I thought it was a flash flood, and there was no way on earth you could get out of this place. Wire pass is about 1/4 mile long, not as deep, but very narrow, only a few feet in places. Buckskin was 10-20 feet wide and a couple hundred feet deep. the narrows go for 10 miles, but we only went about 4, we had to hike back out too. I took hundreds of photos, here are a few.
John wore his best dorky outfit for the hike, wire pass canyon narrows
Buckskin
Buckskin with John in a couple
John in Buckskin, the last one he is by a rock that looks like an elephant
John under a piece of driftwood 30 feet up, the water has run that deep there. The second one is a log jam, you can see John just under it. That log jam went up at least 50–70 feet high.
,here is the underneath view of it. You would die for sure in a flash flood. Buckskin, the arrow points to Johns legs
Sue with rocks, and a petroglyph
Sue in Buckskin, a varnished wall
John coming back out Wire Pass narrows.
We love these slot canyons, there are tons of them in the Vermillion Cliffs. We didn’t get time to hike them all, and we still need to try again for the Wave.
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