{"id":246,"date":"2013-04-04T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2013-04-04T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:49:16","slug":"tightspaces-slotcanyonutah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/tightspaces-slotcanyonutah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight Spaces – A Slot Canyon Experience."},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nOne of my main goals for this trip was to finally get to explore some slot canyons first hand.\u00a0 Having seen pictures over the years of various shapes and colors this part of the expedition was what got me most excited.\u00a0 After a dissapointing first day in which I was thwarted by mother nature and water that was deeper than my dry pants (read; <40F degrees and NARROW), my second attempt at different slots was much more of a success.
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\nBut of course success doesn’t come with some errors.\u00a0 After hiking up the first slot of the day I encountered some rangers who just better marked a trail over the top between the 2 canyons so that the second could be down-climbed instead of the more traditional way.\u00a0 Well, what I didnt expect was to spend an additional 1.5hrs wandering around a random wash in Escalante trying to find it.\u00a0 Finally I back tracked and came to rest from the sun under a tree and well would you believe it there was the trail heading up to the left.\u00a0 Doh!
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\nFinally getting to the top enterance there was a rockfall that had blocked an easy entry soooooo….down climbing.\u00a0 First squeezing my way on to one of the rocks before the 7′ drop to the canyon floor.\u00a0 Too far to slide with my 25lb pack on so on to my belly, sliding to the edge, lower the bag as far as I could and ‘poof’, on to the floor.\u00a0 Now for me.
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\nGaining entry to this slot was interesting however I do not think I was mentally prepared for how narrow this actually was.\u00a0 For a majority of the time I was not able to carry my backpack but had to hold it by the strap and turn my body sideways and drag this ‘not so light’ pack behind me.\u00a0 Every now and then stopping of course as the texture, lines and light were just amazing.\u00a0 Besides the extremely narrow rock walls, because I was descending instead I would encounter people coming up!\u00a0 Uh oh.\u00a0 Then it was finding a spot were we could all slide by each other.\u00a0 Entertaining for sure.\u00a0 Admittedly, about half way down there was a point where the never-ending narrow walls started to etch its way in to my consciousness and had to talk myself down to calm.\u00a0 Never a dull moment!
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\nThis particular section of rock wall had these amazing knobs on the sides, as most of this one did, and the reflected light was glowing perfectly.\u00a0 Setting up a very awkward tripod position I was able to catch this ephemeral light and unique landscape.\u00a0 There is one thing I know is that I could come back here for days and experience different light every day and capture something new here.\u00a0 Truly a magnificent experience!
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  One of my main goals for this trip was to finally get to explore some slot canyons first hand.\u00a0 Having seen pictures over the years of various shapes and colors this part of the expedition was what got me most excited.\u00a0 After a dissapointing first day in which I was thwarted by mother nature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[62,60,61],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-discussion","category-trip-report","tag-escalante","tag-slot-canyon","tag-southern-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}