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Mount Eolus and the Needle Mountains above Chicago Basin

Fig. 1Mount Eolus and the Needle Mountains above Chicago Basin

Landform

A granite amphitheater under Mount Eolus and the Needles — one basin, one plate.

Field note

The train lets you off at Needleton. The walk is long. Eolus and the Needles stand as a wall. This is the basin, not a city and not a second plate.

A private leaf

Prints from Chicago Basin


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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