Slot Canyon

Page, Arizonna, USA
By Barbara Nelson

Slot Canyon, just the name of it is intriguing. A narrow crevice cut through rock, by water and wind over thousands of years.

I had seen pictures and wanted more information.

Slot Canyon, corkscrew, petrified sand dunes, my imagination ran wild. Limitations to go to see the canyon just added to the mystery.

On Navajo Indian land in Page, Arizona, accessible only with a guide.

My choice of tour was Roger Ekis, Antelope Canyon Tour. Navajo owned and operated.

The month was December.

A Navajo guide, in a jeep, took us to a mysterious spot in the desert.

The outside looks like an entrance to a cave. Once you enter, it is an amazing fantasy world of stone, carved by nature.

The darkness inside makes you stop for a minute so your eyes can adapt. The floor is sand, the canyon walls are solid rock and smooth. Looking skyward we can see the light filtering through the cervices.
Every month is a different color scheme, according to the suns position. Our palette of color was purple, yellow and orange. This is transmitted by the sunlight filtering down from above and bouncing off the canyon walls.

In the summer months the shafts of light, makes, light beams, streaming down from the top, to the canyon floor. The brilliant sun shafts, make the canyon walls different colors.

It is a fragile canyon, only a quarter mile long and one hundred thirty feet deep.

A visual delight that leaves you breathless.

If you go: Page, Arizona is on the Utah, Arizona border near Lake Powell, Utah.
Roger Ekis Antelope Canyon Tours
22 S. Lake Powell Blvd.
P.O. Box 936
Page, Az. 86040
Reservations: 928-645-9102 office