Slot Canyons in Utah

Hello, the 2010 Moab Canyoneering trip is underway. Houston, Craig, and Phil are currently dropping into new canyons in Central Utah around Moab as we speak. This year we decided to go to the Moab area after lots of debate.  At the last minute I was unable to go this year, but I wish everyone could go to this part of Utah. It is really something.

To say that central Utah is more complicated than Zion is not enough. It's VAST, unmarked, varied by terrain, varied by geology, and on various types of government property. It's hot, long, remote, easy, dangerous, all that in one. Parts are like Zion, parts are completely different.  The beta information available is better than ever before but still all over the place. Confusing descriptions and secrets compound the problem but they make it romantically like trying to find out about caves in the south in a way. 

Houston and I read hundreds of blogs, emailed the gurus, read the recommended books, bought 24 to 1 maps, downloaded endless descriptions, set up charts with leading contenders, and finally came up with a plan for surveying the topography around Moab.