Slot Canyon, WOW More Side Canyon Hikes Peek-a-boo and Spooky The depth of some slot canyons boggles the mind as you look up a hundred or so feet of binary sheer rock walls with only a foot or so of air space between them. The cut in the sandstone allows you to track events through the sandstone in geologic time. The path of the water flow and resultant eddies cause spectacular curvatures and edges in the rock wall. The drama of a slot canyon has various natures. Slot Canyon, WOW! Close Quarters Slithering in the Slots They inspire awe in the realization that the earth is swaddling you, cuddling you. This gives the sense, when within a slot canyon, that one is being enveloped by the surrounding stone. The allure of a slot canyons is in the fact that they are sinuous clefts in the stone that are thinner than they are deep.