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The field of spires at Chiricahua National Monument. Skinny spire at lower right is the Totem Pole - 137 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter.
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The Totem Pole - right of center is 137 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter.
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Soldiers of the Valley - I like to think of them as Chiricahua Warriors guarding the valley leading out to the Dragoon Mountains.
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A jumbled stack defying gravity. Guess it just does not understand the gravity of the situation.
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Lichens working their magic in the formation of this stone spire.
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A Mother and Child
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More Soldiers of the Valley
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An amazing balancing act. About 30 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter in the middle and 6 feet at the left sided base.
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A flat top standing in the shade.
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Thousands of Warriors guarding the valley. Dragoon Mountains in the distance, where Cochise had his stronghold.
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Stones are taller than the forest.
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Shroom Stone at the Organ Pipes.
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The Organ Pipes.
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The Organ Pipes - about 400 feet tall.
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The Three Amigos - although the front Amigo looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle.
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Stack em and Rack em. @ Chiracauhua National Monument
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At the Organ Pipes - look at the cantilevered rock on the right. Wonder how long it can hang there like that?
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The cantilivered rock at the Organ Pipes.
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Center of picture, you can see part of a column that collapsed and is being held up by the adjacent column - at the Organ Pipes.
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Another view of the cantilevered rock at the Organ Pipes. About 400 feet up on the stack.
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It is hard to get a good side view of the cantilevered rock due to the height.
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Rocks reaching for the sky.
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Layers of volcanic ash that have been weathering for millions of years.
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Canitlivered rock again.
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Cantilivered rock again and again and again. Still standing after all these years.
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The Shroom Stone again. Must have been a bear getting that flat rock up onto that column.
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Shroom Stone yet again.
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The Organ Pipes straight on.
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Check out the little patch of blue at the top left of this column - on the lower stack.
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Beautifully Balanced
