Upper Antelope Canyon is one of many "slot" canyons in northern Arizona. Upper Antelope Canyon is perhaps the best known and most beautiful of all these slot canyons. These canyons generally started as a deep crack in the Navajo Sandstone rock and were widened by water seeping into the cracks. After many millennia of such action, a very narrow canyon from top to bottom, is formed. It is very different formation procedure from the Grand Canyon, which just kept eroding away from the top.
1 Will's menagerie with Navajo guide just emerging from transport vehicle to begin the tour through Upper Antelope Canyon (the big crack in the rock seen on the left of this picture. L. to r.: Don, Lee, Guide, Will, Hayden, Sunshine, Brittany.
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3 The guide shoots this pic before entering the canyon
4 Just inside the entrance, looking up.
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6 Looking up, you see both walls and the light entering the canyon from above.
7 Brittany amazed at the view.
8 The menagerie with the walls of the canyon on each side. Some places the 6 of us could fit between the walls and some places not.
9 Looking up.
10 Looking up, again.
11 Just sit back and enjoy the trip................
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13 There are those people again.
14 Lee gazing up at the splendor of Antelope Canyon.
15 Here you can see some of the trash left behind by floods through the canyon.
16 A romantic place (Hayden/Brittany).
17 Or a granddaughter/grandpa place (Sunshine/Will)
18 Or a mother/son place (Sunshine/Hayden).
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21 Looking up, again.
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23 Looking up, again.
24 You see these people everywhere.
25 Looking up, again.
26 Looking up at a standing bear?
27 Looking up, again.
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34 Will looking up, "Anyone up there."
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36 A honeymoon picture.
37 Looking up, again.
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48 Sunshine in a pensive mood, just overwhelmed by the beauty.
49 Looking up, again.
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51 Looking up, again.
52 OK, Hayden if you can't get through this narrow spot, the rest of us don't stand a chance.
53 Finally, the end of the canyon about 660 ft from the start: short but sweet. At its deepest place, about 120 ft.
54 Those that started, finished. Give 'em a medal!
55 You then take these stairs up to the rim of the canyon, and down on the other end to where we begin.
