Landform
Purple, white, and yellow clay hoodoos on the eastern prairie — a painted hollow in the hills.
Field note
The clay is white, yellow, and a faint purple. Hoodoos hold the hollow. This is Calhan’s paint mines, not a high-country badland.
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Hills chapter · 39.02° N · 104.27° W
A private leaf
Prints from Paint Mines
Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.
The prints
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A day's country
The nearest plates, by the miles.
Garden of the Gods34 miles · ColoradoXCIX
Lost Creek Wilderness67 miles · ColoradoCIX
Comanche National Grassland91 miles · ColoradoCCLXV
Great Sand Dunes111 miles · ColoradoXIX
Zapata Falls119 miles · ColoradoCXC
Sangre de Cristo Range120 miles · ColoradoCVII
Spanish Peaks120 miles · ColoradoCXCII
Holy Cross122 miles · ColoradoCCLXXXIII
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