The Swell
The Colorado Plateau Physiographic Province is full of contradictory features. How do we winnow the exceptions from the rules?
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Back Home: Gallup, New Mexico
There’s nothing like a pilgrimage home — even if you’ve made the trip a thousand times.
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Post-Gila journal extract: A meditation on the similarities between plants and crystals.
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There’s a radical transformation that takes place for those who descend into the caves of southeast New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains — as if the world were changing before your very eyes.
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Hikers who make the effort to head down to the Gila will be rewarded with an incredible array of terrains, from slot canyons to meadows to 10,000-foot peaks. This stunning variety is largely thanks to a quartet of supervolcanoes!
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A first cave-centered pilgrimage to “The Guads” induces awe and reveals cosmic mysteries.
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The Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas are a vast playground for climbers, hikers and cavers. Crazy thing is that they’re composed almost entirely of defunct sea creatures.
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