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Valle Grande inside the caldera

Fig. 1Valle Grande inside the caldera

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Landform

A collapsed volcano the size of a sky. Valle Grande is a grass floor ringed by a mountain rim, 13 miles across.

Field note

The Jemez blew out and fell in. Resurgent domes sit in the grass like islands. Elk use the floor. Most people drive the rim and never feel how large the hole is.

A private leaf

Prints from Valles Caldera


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

The prints

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