As Lake Powell began to fill in 1963 ... some of which are on top of unmarked cultural sites. In Slick Rock Canyon, visitors once scrambled up a steep talus slope to access a cliff dwelling ...

Now, mighty Lake Powell, big enough to fit 25 million ... willows during his first inspection of the reemerging Slick Rock Canyon, one of many remote watershedsnotched into Glen Canyon’s sandstone.

From Glen Canyon ... s slick-rock plateau and canyon country. But Abbey 's book never expected that nature, in the form of a blistering six-year drought, would toy with the fate of Lake Powell.

Daughter Katie and I delighted in an 88-foot waterfall, Upper Calf Creek Falls, on a four-mile slick ... of Lake Powell, where the Colorado River has been dammed and backed up in Glen Canyon.