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The volcanic plug of Lizard Head above alpine meadow

Fig. 1The volcanic plug of Lizard Head above alpine meadow

Photo: Adam Baker from Houston / Moscow / Toulouse (travel a lot) · CC BY 2.0

Landform

A rotten volcanic plug standing on an alpine ridge above spruce and meadow.

Field note

The spire is the old throat of a mountain that wore away. The rock is bad. Spruce holds the lower slope. From the pass it reads as a single upright mark.

A private leaf

Prints from Lizard Head


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

The prints

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