• We were caught in a flash flood in one of Utah's most famous slot canyons.
• Sidewinder Canyon For even more twists and turns inside a slot canyon, Sidewinder provides some of the best claustrophobic hiking in Death Valley. You can find more detailed route information here. This hike is considered strenuous, so use caution in the passageways.
• SIDEWINDER CANYON'S SLOT CANYONS Death Valley National Park, California Most people think of Death Valley as just a hot, desolate place with nothing to see buy intense heat and desert sand.

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Sidewinder Side Slot Canyon Posted on September 9, 2017 by KamloopsTrails One of our favorite hikes was up Sidewinder Canyon in Death Valley. The highlight, though, was 3 side slot canyons, two of which were narrow dark slots surprising long and interesting.

Sidewinder may refer to:

Snakes[edit]

• Sidewinding, a form of locomotion used by some snakes
  • Bitis peringueyi or sidewinding adder, a venomous adder species found in Namibia and southern Angola
  • Cerastes cerastes or Saharan horned viper, a venomous pit viper found in northern Africa and parts of the Middle East
  • Crotalus cerastes or sidewinder rattlesnake, a venomous pit viper species found in the southwestern United States

Amusement park rides[edit]

• Sidewinder (roller coaster element), an inversion involving a half-loop followed by a half-corkscrew
• Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens), a roller coaster in Denver, Colorado
• Sidewinder (Hersheypark), a roller coaster in Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Sidewinder, a ride at Sandcastle Waterworld in Blackpool, England

Computing[edit]

• Microsoft SideWinder, a family of digital game controllers
• Sidewinder, firewall software from Secure Computing (now McAfee)

Fiction[edit]

• Sidewinder (character), a Marvel supervillain
• Budd (Kill Bill) or Sidewinder, a character in the Kill Bill films
• Sidewinder, a machine in the Thunderbirds TV series

Music[edit]

• Sidewinder (band), a band from Australia
• Sidewinders, a barbershop quartet
• The Sidewinders, an Arizona rock band
• Sidewinder (EP), a 1996 EP by Download
• The Sidewinder, a 1964 album by Lee Morgan
• 'The Sidewinder' (composition), a composition by Lee Morgan
• Sidewinder, an electronic music composition and album by Morton Subotnick
• 'Sidewinder', a song by Avenged Sevenfold from City of Evil
• 'Sidewinder', a song by Catfish and the Bottlemen from The Balcony
• 'Sidewinder', a song by The Cynic Project
• 'Sidewinder', a song by Lard from Pure Chewing Satisfaction
• 'Sidewinder', a song by Photek from Form & Function Vol. 2

Sports[edit]

• Sidewinders (X-League), an American football team in Japan
• Tucson Sidewinders, a AAA baseball team
• Sidewinder, a freestyle skateboarding trick

Vehicles[edit]

• Bell Sidewinder, a clone of the Phantom X1 aircraft
• Dodge Sidewinder, a 1997 concept car
• Kia Sidewinder, a 2006 concept car
• Smyth Sidewinder, a two-seat experimental aircraft developed in 1969

Video games[edit]

• Sidewinder (Mastertronic video game), a 1988 video game for the Amiga
• Sidewinder (video game) or Mission Cobra, a 1989 action arcade game for NES

Other uses[edit]

Sidewinder Slot Canyon

• AIM-9 Sidewinder, an air-to-air missile
• Sidewinder (slot car), a type of model car with a transverse motor
• Vriesea 'Sidewinder', a hybrid cultivar

See also[edit]

• 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite', a song by R.E.M.

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Added by Jim Bellings

You'll find 5 incredible waterfalls after a short, but steep bushwhack into Bear Creek Canyon.

Find County Road 1802 in Hagarville, Arkansas off of Arkansas Hwy 123. Travel about 2.2 miles down the road and park. Coordinates 35.68642, -93.17392

You'll start hiking west and should find yourself on the right hand side of wet weather ravine. Look closely as you follow this ravine, you'll see pink markers hanging from tree branches as you descend deeper toward Bear Creek Canyon.

Sidewinder Slot Canyon

You'll come across 2 of the 5 waterfalls pictured at Coordinates 35.68930, -93.18470. The waterfalls are named Sidewinder and Swamp Falls. If the water level is low you can climb down below Swamp Falls for some fantastic pics.

Journey upstream a short distance and you'll approach Baby Bear Falls. Take in the sight and shoot some pics before turning around and heading back downstream.

You'll want to go past Sidewinder and Swamp Falls continuing downstream to V Slot Falls. I recommend a rope if you want to climb into the slot cut into the rock over centuries of erosion. Truly a magnificent sight. On this day the creek was flowing descent, but not enough water to form a 'V' around the boulder pictured.

A little further downstream and you'll reach the last waterfall. This one is Slot Pool Falls. I ate lunch here. It'd be the perfect place for a summer swim if you were up to bushwhacking through thorns, poison ivy and all the undergrowth associated with warm weather in the Ozarks.

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