The Joint trail can be traversed from one of two direction - it is a 5 mile loop. Tom and I had taken one direction around the loop and Brian had taken the other. After we exited the slot canyon, we decided to rest at this spot to wait on Brian. From what I understand, we stopped at a good place on the trail; we would not have seen anything except a gravel road and a few porta-potties if we would have continued. Brian caught up with us here and all three of us went back into the slot canyon via the 'Rock Cairn Heaven' opening.