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The cinder cone of Sunset Crater above ponderosa

Fig. 1The cinder cone of Sunset Crater above ponderosa

Photo: Nhartmannphotos · CC BY 4.0

Landform

A young cinder cone with a rusted rim and black slopes — not Humphreys Peak and not a desert butte.

Field note

The cinders are black. The rim goes rust. Ponderosa takes the lower slope. This is Sunset Crater, not the alpine summit of Humphreys to the west.

A private leaf

Prints from Sunset Crater


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

The prints

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