I don’t know why they call them the Rabbit Ears. Camel Humps is more like it. If they were most anywhere else, they wouldn’t be called anything. As geologic formations go, these two six-thousand-foot peaks are remarkable only because of their context, and the context is the flattest land in Texas. Even though the peaks are in New Mexico.Let me explain.You first see them (and it’s them, plural, though technically they are called Rabbit Ears Mountain) around Dalhart. If you’ve been traveling from Dallas, as I have approximately four million times, they are the first geological protuberances in forever. They have always been a welcome sight to me because they indicate what New Mexico has that the Panhandle and North Texas basically don’t: mountains.The Rabbit…
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