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Painted Desert badlands from Tawa Point

Fig. 1Painted Desert badlands from Tawa Point

Photo: Finetooth · CC BY-SA 3.0

Landform

Chinle badlands from Tawa Point — red and lavender benches, not Blue Mesa’s logs and not Oregon’s Painted Hills.

Field note

The mounds take late sun like paint. Tawa Point looks north over the benches. This is the Painted Desert overlook, not the live Blue Mesa plate and not the Oregon hills.

A private leaf

Prints from Painted Desert


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

The prints

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