Fig. 1The Crooked River under Smith Rock at sundown
Landform
A welded-tuff palisade above a tight bend of the Crooked River. Climbing walls, juniper slope, and a river corridor of cottonwood.
Field note
Smith Rock is the birthplace of American sport climbing, but the landform is the point: a horseshoe of welded ash, a green river, a dry plateau. Sunset is copper on the tuff.
