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Thin Metate Arch in the Escalante Devil's Garden

Fig. 1Thin Metate Arch in the Escalante Devil's Garden

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

Landform

A thin cream span in the Escalante Devil’s Garden — not Landscape Arch and not Arches NP.

Field note

The span is thin as a grinding stone. A juniper sits in the window. This is Metate in the monument garden, not the Devil’s Garden in Arches.

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Prints from Metate Arch


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

The prints

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