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While flying over the dry and monochrome desert areas of northern New Mexico, we passed this one snowy cap. From my vantage point it looked quite out of place, but the Sierra Grande summit is all that remains of an extinct volcano. From a general Google search, it doesn’t look that steep or tall, but it is about 2,000 feet taller than any peak in the Appalachian range.

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