scramble Shop Creek slot canyon – Arkansas

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One trip was inspired by this photo:

… A slot canyon in Arkansas?

That’s what I thought too until I came across this beautiful picture taken by Tim Ernst a few months back. I had to know where it was and check it out for myself. So I shot Tim Ernst an email asking…and to my surprise…he answered! I immediately called one of my friends up and told him we have to give this place a visit.

It was an awesome place indeed. It starts as a typical creek bed in the woods and after following the creek about half a mile, narrow canyon walls just appear almost like a doorway. We headed into it amidst the horrible smell of a rotting carcass of some animal who probably fell in (most likely an armadillo, those things are so stupid). What we found was something that belongs in Utah or Arizona. But it’s not…it’s in the middle of the Ozarks. …

Read the rest of this post and click through some of the others – A Little Closer To Heaven » Amazing Destinations: Shop Creek Slot Canyon. You will be impressed.