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Honeycomb fins of Little Finland

Fig. 1Honeycomb fins of Little Finland

Photo: John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA · CC BY 2.0

Landform

Honeycomb red sandstone. Wind-cut fins that look poured, not grown.

Field note

Gold Butte is a national monument and still empty. Little Finland is also called Hobgoblin’s Playground. The rock is Aztec sandstone, cousin to Zion, cut into something Zion is not.

A private leaf

Prints from Little Finland


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

The prints

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