Satellite V of Twelve · Needle Rock, West Elk Mountains
The solidified throat of a volcano that has otherwise entirely vanished, standing alone over the Smith Fork valley.
It rises alone from the floor of the Smith Fork valley — a single stone spire eight hundred feet tall, visible for miles near the small town of Crawford. What you are looking at is not a wall or a ridge: it is the hardened core of a volcano that formed some 28 million years ago, left standing once every softer layer around it wore away.
This is one of the plainer entries in this field of twelve, honestly stated: named in the primary source material and confirmed by Peter's own working diagram, with no further independent corroboration yet found. Its offering does not depend on that confirmation — a very literal image of what endures once everything softer around it has gone.
From the Sun Disc's ground in Arkansas, this Satellite sits to the west-northwest, in the West Elk Mountains of western Colorado — the closest of the mountain Satellites to Arkansas itself.
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