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It was at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada that my wife and I first started looking for slot canyons to explore. On our first visit to Death Valley, I saw some pamphlets about exploring slot canyons within the park, but I was too scared to try exploring these wild places just by ourselves. Deserts were unfamiliar to me, and I was not taking any chances. Over the years, I have been to some of the more popular slot canyons and gotten more comfortable with the desert landscape.
While at Valley of Fire, I felt that the canyons, smaller and shorter than Antelope canyon, had a much more sophisticated color palette. Many pastel colors are mixed in with desert reds typical to the area. Also, the general landscape is not as daunting as some of the other desert parks in the southwest. So we started looking for them and found quite a few to photograph. So easily accessible and some not so easy. I cant wait to head back to death Valley and explore some of the beautiful canyon hikes that I drove past the last time I was there.