The pin by Bowknot Bend isn't Twomile Canyon. What do you all think about the number of unknown slots? How many would you guess? Has anyone gone down any super secret slots? (No need to reveal locations)Ĭlick to expand.To be clear, not everything on there was necessarily marked as a slot, as some points are either just wide narrows, large canyons, or rock formations I accidentally included in the folder. Here is a quick snapshot of my slot placemarks: Hotspots for hidden slots are: South of Glen Canyon, the Navajo Nation, remote, inaccessible areas of Navajo Sandstone, and anywhere there are known slots on neighboring drainages. The remaining 125 are probably just weird cracks and joints in the rock, or shallow drainages with 5 - 10ft tall walls, but who knows. Another 30 would be x slots, and maybe 20 of those 105 could be pretty and worth creating beta for. Of those, I'd venture the wildest of guesses perhaps 75 would be deep and challenging to move through, and not exceptionally hard. My guess is that I've found around 230 unknown slots. Some slots, after using Topo maps to find the drainage name turned out to have been explored. Next, using the highest resolution maps available, and checking Google Earth imagery from different dates and different lighting against Bing maps I started adding place marks to areas that look like they have slot canyons cut into them. Then I spent even more time scanning the Colorado Plateau satellite imagery and geological maps looking for areas of Navajo sandstone that have flash flood prone washes running over it. How many undescended/ no beta/ undiscovered slots do you think are out there?Īfter spending many hours reading Kelsey guidebooks, internet articles, summitpost, climbutah, minislot guides, roadtripryan canyon tales, beta on various internet forums and looking at the super amazing canyoneering map, I had a LOT of Google Earth place marks.

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