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The San Juan looping a thousand feet down

Fig. 1The San Juan looping a thousand feet down

Photo: James St. John · CC BY 2.0

Landform

Entrenched meanders of the San Juan — a textbook of how a river can sink in place, looping a thousand feet below the desert.

Field note

From the overlook the San Juan is a brown ribbon tying knots in Paleozoic rock. There is a picnic table, a wind, and almost no one. The geology is the whole show.

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Prints from Goosenecks


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

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