Hiking in the LONGEST and DEEPEST slot canyon in the Southwest! (Wire Pass to Buckskin Gulch)

Excited? I'm so excited. It's massive. This is huge. If you want to feel like small and just mind blown this is the hike for you. Today we're doing something we are so excited about we are hiking the wire pass trail to part of buckskin gulch which is the longest and deepest slot canyon in the southwest. We've officially started the wire pass trail and a couple things to know about this hike it is six dollars per person and per dog and you can buy your permit online in advance at recreation.gov we'll put a link to where you can get that below. We heard that not all dogs love this hike and you'll probably see why in a bit so Kona's gonna sit this one out and just take a nap in the van. This hike's also around six miles according to the all trails map that we are following but it's also kind of a choose your own adventure you can go as far as you like or turn around sooner so we'll see what we actually end up doing. So you start the trail going down the wash isn't too terribly exciting you do have some nice rocks on either side pretty scenery especially here at sunrise but the really exciting part is coming up i think it's about three quarters of a mile to a mile somewhere in there. The fun is about to begin cool you excited i'm so excited we just entered the wire pass slot we're not yet to the buckskin gulch but this is incredible oh wow like every every turn so far he's like wow whoa cool i love it we have a bit of a drop there's a wooden ladder to help you get down to the next part oh my gosh oh gosh wow oh that's like a 10 foot at least drop nice yeah getting the ladder the water looks sturdy but getting like onto it seems this is the part right here that's not very dog friendly that wasn't too bad slot canyons form over millions of years as water rushes through rock especially sandstone and limestone and even today slot canyons are very impacted by water and can flash flood very very quickly so big psa if you're going to hike wire pass to buckskin gulch or any slot canyon make sure to check the weather not just for the slot canyon but the surrounding areas weather because even rain off in the distance can flash flood these things super quick and you do not want to be stuck in one of these when it flash floods we just left the wire pass slot canyon and we're making our way to the beginning of the buckskin gulch which as we mentioned at the beginning is the longest and deepest slot canyon in the southwest it's over 13 miles long and 500 feet tall i think we lied earlier i think we're still in the wire pass slot we're not really sure because we just entered another slot canyon this one seems more narrow and taller this whole experience kind of reminds us of antelope canyon but less like bright orange and it seems more narrow it's it's so cool and the best part is we haven't seen anyone yet so we have it all to ourselves it's tight okay i think we found the real beginning of the buckskin gulch yeah this looks like the picture wow man this early light coming through here gorgeous it's massive so i saw in some pictures and i read about some petroglyphs on the one end of the buckskin gulch i can't remember if it was the north or the south end but here's one right here so cool to think about people have been coming down here for thousands and thousands of years walking in their footsteps so cool you made it look way easier than the sun's getting higher the longer we stay in here obviously so there's more and more light coming in it's just changing the scenery every now and then pretty cool it's making it a fiery orange after the wire pass slot canyon you're pretty much going through slot canyons the rest of the time so it's kind of similar in appearance but having that light change just makes it have a different feel and seriously as we're walking i just can't stop thinking like how crazy it like how this formed it's just so crazy nature is wild if you want to feel like small and just mind blown this is the hike for you so just to give you a little bit of a map update we started right here we've gone all this way about 3.3 miles the all trails map ends right here it says buckskin overlook not totally sure what that means but we're pretty close so i think we're going to go see what it's all about it's just absolutely massive in here oh wow it really opens up i think we made it to the end where all trail says to go as you can see though um all trails struggle to keep up with our movements because it said we lost a gps signal so it looks like we just went but it's very easy to follow the trail because there's only one option so i don't know it opens up a ton right here i'll go check it out and then probably head back something we forgot to mention is that the wire pass trailhead is the same trailhead as the wave which is that really iconic hike in arizona that only lets 20 people in a day it's basically impossible to get a permit but wire pass allows anyone as many people as possible to hike it which has its pros and cons that means it can be busier but it means it's more accessible we haven't seen anyone we started like 7 15 ish we haven't seen anyone until now on our way back we saw two people but we hear it'll probably get busier closer to the end back to this three hours and 45 minutes it says 8.6 miles but i think it i think it thinks we went on our own path we think it was about six miles total and now for the other fun part almost nine miles of dirt and gravel road back to the highway so if you've done any research on this hike you will probably see people talking about this dirt road out to it so we actually drove in yesterday and stayed at a campground called state line campground which is located on the arizona and utah i forgot what states we were border that way we could get this drive out of the way not in the dark so we have driven it before and our van survived it on the way here and it should be good on the way back too it's not too bad we're extra careful on what roads we take the van on because it's not only our van but it's also our house so if something happens we're kind of out of luck on both of those so the road's not too bad they recommend two-wheel drive is okay and also high clearance is okay just go slow it's just bumpy it's not too bad i saw a mustang come out this morning so if he can make it i think anybody can but they do say if the road is wet do not go on it it's totally impassable even to four by four and 45 minutes later we are back on pavement do you hear that it's not rattling around it's nice and quiet right we headed into kanab utah which is west of the wire pass trail and it's actually where we've been hanging out the majority of the week at an awesome free campsite kanab is named after a payu word meaning land of the willows and it's nicknamed little hollywood because of its filmmaking history over the years including some films like lone ranger buffalo bill planet of the apes and maverick just to name a few for many years kanab was one of the most isolated cities in the nation and it was cut off from the rest of the nation by the colorado river deep canyon sand dunes and desert plains but now it's a very popular destination in southern utah because of its proximity to so many amazing things to do like the slot canyon we did today and a couple things we'll show you in our next video no hike is complete without a post hike stuff your face fast we grabbed takeout from a place called rock and v cafe in downtown kanab it's a really cool spot it's a restaurant and they pride themselves on doing like slow food and using high quality ingredients they have a really great menu but they also have live music sometimes and they have an art gallery upstairs it's a really really neat spot so i got the kanabadabadoo burger so it's a giant half pound patty i think there's swiss cheese on there bacon it's got green chilies avocado some kind of house sauce the bun looks awesome and fluffy and fresh i basically just got it because one it looks really good it sounded good but the name is just awesome it also comes with the side and we just got mashed potatoes they look good though that burger is kanabadabalicious so dang good first off the first as soon as you bite into it you get that green chili flavor such a burst of flavor and then the cheese and the bacon add some saltiness the the burger patty's got a nice grilled flavor to it the bun like i said is nice and soft and fluffy and just a perfect vessel for this avocado even more flavor oh this is i love everything about this the sauce also has a little tanginess too it is so dang good and i got the deep dish veggie enchilada and i added some chicken on top and in this deep dish enchilada that's a tongue twister is roasted peppers hatch green chilies zucchini and onions and then it's topped with tomatillo sauce and it has this like green goddess sauce as well look at this stacks on stacks on stacks it looks so good oh whoops there it goes at least it fell in the box yeah oh my goodness as they say in the menu a grand staircase of flavor it is loaded with flavor tortilla is nice and soft this green sauce on top has incredible flavor it's i'm not exactly sure what's in it but it's really really tasty kind of herby but yeah it's just perfect i don't know it's just perfect it's perfect people weren't lying when they said rock and v was rocking lunch has been devoured the one thing to note this place not the cheapest in town but both things we got were absolutely delicious so we highly recommend it but for today we've got some very exciting plans we've got the laundromat we've got the grocery store so that'll do it for us today but in our next video we're going to show you more fun things to do here we put on our new uh what is it it's like a better for you sunscreen without a lot of the stuff that isn't good in sunscreens apparently but the downside is it uh a lot more of a white sheen on your face he looks like a vampire like a vampire ghost you can't tell but just trust me he looks like but hey edward cullen yeah yeah i look like edward cullen but hey sun protection yeah lunch lunch has been devoured