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The Colorado looping under Dead Horse Point

Fig. 1The Colorado looping under Dead Horse Point

Landform

A narrow sandstone peninsula overlooking a gooseneck of the Colorado. Same rock as Canyonlands, a tighter balcony.

Field note

The point is a neck of rim barely wide enough for a road. The Colorado loops a thousand feet below. On a clear day the La Sals stand snow-capped behind the red benches.

A private leaf

Prints from Dead Horse Point


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

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