NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/backcoun/9924

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From: [e-mail] (David Herberg)
Subject: Re: Antelope Canyon, Arizona
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Lawrence
Mulvihill) writes:
> I'm looking for information on Antelope (Corkscrew?)Canyon.
> Has anyone out there done it?  How's access?  How dangerous?
> Etc.

I "did" it last year.  It's three miles away from the highway up an open
wash.  I took 4wd as do most visitors and drove right up to it.  The slot
is no more than 150 yards long.  Upstream, the slot opens up to a wide
wash again.  It isn't dangerous at all, since you can leave inside of one
minute.  Flash floods aren't the raging wall of water roaring across a
hitherto dry washbed.  The water starts rising first.  Since Antelope
Canyon is normally bone dry, leave when the first water arrives.  Even
when the slot is filled with floodwater, the wash below is so wide that
you will have no trouble driving back out.

A permit from the Navajos is required to visit the site, which is on their
private property.  There is a trading post a couple of miles s.e. of Page
where the permits are available.  Last I checked, it was $7 for 7 day
limit.  Antelope Canyon suffers from overvisitation, graffiti, and trash.

David Herberg, [e-mail]