slickrock

From his days hauling teenagers down whitewater and across slickrock, Sundog believes in instilling in youth what Aldo Leopold termed a “land ethic.”

Our hike took us through slot canyons, grassy prairies, and over smooth, exposed slickrock.

In the early 1990s, Sand Flats was a free-for-all, with people setting up camp wherever they wanted among sandy washes and slickrock outcroppings.

If you’re short on time and can’t fit any of these lengthier options into your schedule, make tracks for Corona Arch, where a three-mile round-trip hike will deposit you on a slickrock slope beneath this gawk-worthy natural wonder.