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Snow on Mount Ellen above red benches and gold sage

Fig. 1Snow on Mount Ellen above red benches and gold sage

Photo: Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0

Landform

An isolated laccolith — snowed peaks over red benches and gold sage, south of the Waterpocket Fold.

Field note

The Henrys stand off the plateau like a small range that forgot the others. Sage takes the benches. This is Mount Ellen, not Capitol Reef and not the fold.

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Prints from Mount Ellen


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

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