Mountain Sheep Canyon in Antelope Canyon

by Angela Stanton

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Mountain Sheep Canyon in Antelope Canyon

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Angela Stanton

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An all-day hike yielded this amazing photo standing between two vertical walls looking down from where I hiked up from. This place is definitely not for the faint of heart... This is looking back to see where I came from. As you can see, the space between walls is VERY narrow. Often my Navajo guide and I had to walk on the vertical walls separated by the narrow canyon below us, with one foot on each side of the canyon. This particular point I am standing on a little area built by 3 2x4 wooden bars as a stand that I climbed a completely vertical step ladder to get to and nearly nothing to hold onto. Another thing of interest is how these canyons get washed out by rain. The ladder I had to climb was covered about 5 feet thick with the amazing amount of dead wood and dirt washed against it from the last such rush of waters through it. I was the first visitor since that rain. To see these canyons as a tourist is one thing.... to walk through them and see what nature can do is an entirely different experience. I have taken approximately 100 pictures of this one canyon alone. It is called Mountain Sheep canyon for a good reason and I will forever have a new respect for those sheep!

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November 22nd, 2012

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