Fly over the place and it’s clear the land was created by an endless series of flash floods. One cataclysm after another laid down this broad alluvial slope. Speed up the historical record and the floods would appear to come out of Pinkham Canyon and writhe across the landscape like a firehose escaped from a first-responder’s gloved grasp.
You can trace…
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