Little Wild Horse Canyon

Topo Map for the hike. || GPS Coordinates for the map. || Another map.

A short distance from the trailhead, this "punchbowl", often filled with water and followed by a dry falls, is the most difficult obstacle in encountered .

Matthew "flys" in the slot.

In many places the walls are close enough together to "chimney" up..

The canyon is always changing shape. Here the bottom is wide smooth sandstone..

A "V" shaped bottom with banded sandstone.

Close up of the banded floor.

One of the narrowest and darkest sections.

Typical slot canyon scenery.

Fluted walls beneath a blue sky.

A "chalk stone" forms a tunnel.

Linda gives Joanna a piggyback in a wide section.

Honeycombed sandstone.

A "corkscrew" section of narrows.

Matt and Kayla negotiate an obstacle.

Kayla is almost invisible in this tight section.

Matt and Kayla climbing the walls.

The entrance to a tight narrows.

The stream bed disappears into the Kayenta Formation.

In the Kayenta Formation, the walls are undercut and overhanging.

A squeeze in the Kayenta Formation.

One of the most scenic, twisting narrows.

Abstract in sandstone.

Kayla looks to be an inch tall in this entrance to a narrows.

Linda and Kayla enjoying the polished walls.

A narrow sandy trail.

Strongly dipping beds.

Less than a foot wide!

Single file.

Rough walls.

Swiss Cheese?

A "hanging" slot in the canyon wall.

Variegated walls.

Walls like waves.....

Layers of various resistance leave terraces and hollows as they erode.

Rough walls and smooth bottom.

Sculptured floor.

The sun does reach the floor in places.

Matt emerges from the shadows.

Matt and Kayla rest on "whalebones".

Vegetation is rare in the canyon.

Links

Slot Canyons of the Southwest - Little Wild Horse Page
Flash Flood Story || More photos.
Family Hiking in LWH
Utah Redrocks LWH - talks about water in the slot.

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Last Modified: January 20, 2003