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MRI embroidery action shot!
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Yayyyy pine trees!
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Setting out from the car
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Short-horned lizard
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Short-horned lizard
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The Rim is a crazy dropoff -- about 3000 feet in some spots
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All lovely pine forest to the south
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Matt taking photos
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Becky examining... uh oh the world's going all tilted!
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Alex and whoawhoa tilted world!
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An interesting epiphyte -- lichen?
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"This is where we were trying to go if they find our bodies."
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Looking partway up the escarpment
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Matt photographing a clearing
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Becky rock-sunning like a lizard
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An ominous cloud -- we even heard thunder!
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Another interesting epiphyte
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It's mixed in with the mossy lichen I saw earlier
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Raincloud -- The Rim has one of the highest lightning strike rates in the US
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Becky and Alex on the Rim edge
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Looking across to another part of the escarpment
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Obligatory self-shot. Note new hat! Sehr praktisch!
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Down over the edge.
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View off to the south again
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Highway headed back toward Payson
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Look! What's that over there?
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Remnants of a past fire
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A few small trees re-taking the edge
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The clearcut strip in the background is a major power line coming from the Cholla Power Plant near Holbrook. You can see it clearly on satellite images!
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We found a lake! Lake Knoll, to be precise.
