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Up on top of The Colorado National Monument is an area known as Glade Park. One of the popular hang-outs up there is called The Potholes by locals but formally referred to as Little Delores Falls. On this particular trip, my brother-in-law drove us up to The Potholes with the intent of stopping at Miracle Rock on the way back for a short hike. However, nature had other plans.
The rock in this area is Precambrian basement granite. Unlike the younger red and tan sandstones, shales and limestones which typically weather into sharp, angular blocks, the hard, dense granite here is worn smooth, rounded and polished by ages of flowing water. Down in the gully below here are the namesake Potholes. Water flows pretty much year round and this is the place to jump off the granite cliffs into the cold water in the potholes.
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