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Zoomed view of hikers traversing the exposed portion of the Devil’s Backbone Trail where is passes below the Devil’s Pulpit. Meanderthals hike up the Devil’s Backbone Trail on Labor Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, August 31, 2019.
One of the first sun-prints I made way back in junior high school...plastic medusa figure, rhinestone bracelet, and a penny.
This looks like a dinosaur's backbone but it's actually eroded
sandstone. One of the many cool things we saw on our hike today.
Aren't you jealous?
Known as a volcanic dike, the Devil's Backbone is made of dense volcanic rock that forced its way up through older, softer layers during an eruption, thus creating a channel up to the top of the caldera. Volcanic dikes resist erosion very well, which is why they persist after the rock around them washes away. This one continues down the outside of the crater to a full length of over five miles.