Gamboling in the Slots

You don’t have to journey to Utah for the slithery fun of exploring slot canyons. We have some stellar examples of our own, where nature has sculpted solid rock into tight but passable corridors. Challenging? Sometimes. Fun? Always.

Week: 11.02.2017
Regions: Southern CA

Journey into the Chasm of Doom

Journey into the Chasm of Doom in Joshua Tree National Park

When you enter Joshua Tree’s Chasm of Doom, your fate is sealed. Your life becomes an experience of mystery, steep climbs, steeper drops, chimneying, and death-defying squeezes. What could be more fun? From the entrance of the slot canyon in Hidden Valley, you first make a steep
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Wine with Your Weekend

Line 39 Fall Adventures and Wine

There are a lot of good pairings out there, but wine with a weekend adventure—that's a Line 39 specialty! Approachable, affordable, and award-winning, the wines of Line 39 are made for explorations. Embrace autumn with a creekside hike or bike ride by amber-colored maples and a p
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Good Times in Anza-Borrego's Badlands

Hiking the Palm Wash Slot Canyons in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Anza-Borrego’s badlands look forbidding, but anyone with a sense of adventure can dive in and explore V-shaped canyons, 100-foot-deep slots, and a vast maze of sandstone rock formations laced with the calcite veins that drew miners here in the 1940s. At the heart of all this badn
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Chutes and Ladders

Hiking Ladder Canyon Trail Through Painted Canyon in the Mecca Hills

Just when you think you can’t go any farther in Painted Canyon, you remember why this route is called the Ladder Canyon Trail. Whew! There it is: a perfectly placed ladder that gets you up and over the would-be dead-end and into the next thrilling phase of your canyon hike. Ladde
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    Weekend in Reno Tahoe

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