Inner Basin is the blown-out portion of an ancient volcano, leaving San Francisco Peaks as the lesser summirs surrounding the missing high point of the original mountain
1 HUMPHREY'S PEAK INNER BASIN
2 Mushrooms decorate a rotting stump
3 Each stand of aspens grows from a single root system
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35 Our first break
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40 Getting closeto the mat of mosses and lichens
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47 We brea out onto a meadow at 9700'
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60 The Pumphouse, highest well drillled on the mountain
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62 Thunder rumbles as the sky darkens
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76 All around us, mushrooms help recycle the high-country dead
