Devils Postpile
A cliff of perfect basalt columns
A 60-foot wall of hexagonal basalt columns — cooled lava cracked into a near-geometric honeycomb — tucked in the high Sierra near Mammoth. Climb to the top to see the column tops polished by glaciers into a tile floor.
The shot
The columns from below, then the glacier-polished tops.
Nearby & worth pairing
- Rainbow Falls
- Mammoth Lakes
- Ansel Adams Wilderness
- Inyo National Forest
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