My fascination with Anza Borrego’s slot canyons began with a hike in December 2011, when a friend led us to an impressive canyon in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness. We hiked down what began as a dry ravine and then turned into a short but impressive slot canyon. The feeling of being “inside the Earth” got me hooked immediately.
Ever since, I’ve been “chasing” the slot canyons in the area, including the well-known ones at Calcite Mine and “The Slot” at the upper end of Borrego Mountain Wash, but also lesser known slots in the Carrizo Badlands and at Palm Wash. And I’m always looking for more, of course. This gallery contains some black & white impressions of them, captured during my various desert hikes.
Granite boulder in slot canyon appears to be peeking around the corner; Palm Wash/Calcite Mine area, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California. February 2020.
Slot canyon, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California, January 2017.
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Looking up in a vortex-like segment of a slot canyon; Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; April 2015.
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Boulders and box canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; December 2013.
Slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
Looking up from a deep desert slot canyom the sky appears as a thin shaft of light. Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
Granite boulders stuck in desert slot canyon; Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
Small grotto or alcove in desert slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
Rising walls and curve in desert slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
Steep drop in desert slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
Granite boulder stuck in desert slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; October 2013.
Granite boulder, washed round and smooth from millennia of flash floods and erosion, stuck in a desert slot canyon; Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California, October 2013.
The Slot, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; Feburary 2013.
Sawtooth shapes in desert slot canyon; Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; January 2013.
Curve in desert slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; January 2013.
Half heart-shape in desert slot canyon; Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California, January 2013.
Deep shadows and brightly lit walls in desert slot canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; January 2013.
Narrows of Andrade Canyon, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; December 2011.
Squeeze spot with rockfall in desert slot canyon, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; December 2011.
Lower entrance to Andrade Canyon. The boulders at the center are 20 feet high. Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; December 2011.
Narrow entrance and rock fall at the mouth of Andrade Canyon, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California, December 2011.
Slot canyon, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; December 2011.
Flow patterns at the bottom of a desert slot canyon; Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; December 2011.
Slot canyon with headstone, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; December 2011.
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these look great arranged as a collage. Individually as well of course but they present especially well arranged together.
Thank you Joe! :)