Ted's Hiking World Machado Postpile
Eldorado National Forest

June 13, 2024

Thanks, guys, for this apparent wake-up call.  I got older today.

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Interesting pattern

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Sneak preview of the northernmost tip of the postpile

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Squaw Creek is too busy to cross without getting wet

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Up the 250-foot ravine — possibly the hard way

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The "little" pile

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Machado Postpile, 13 million years old, lay virtually undiscovered intil 1990

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The columns have 4,5, or 6 sides

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Top of the Little Pile

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Daggerpod *
Western Wallflower

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Last view

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I am a real slowpoke today

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On the trail... *
...Off the trail

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Simbiosis?

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Sierra Stonecrop *
Mountain Pride

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Almost a hole over on Thimble Peak

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No cairns in sight

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Almost pretty

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Chick Lupine *
Lambstongue Ragwort

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The phlox know the route

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Hymenochaetaceae fungus

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Breaking another quarter-mile of new ground

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Silver Lake reappears

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Interesting dike

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Back on the Granite Lake Trail

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This wil be helpful on any future visits

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