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To our west was a huge volcanoes field.  Merriam and Sheba Craters are known to many as hangglider sites.   Sunset Crater is a National Park.  But I wanted to see a lesser known Crater called "S. P. Crater".   I spotted it a couple years ago on Google Earth as a beautiful perfectly shaped and deep cinder cone north of Flagstaff. 

I looked it up on Wikipedia and found the story of its obscure name.

"The naming of the mountain is a bit of lore from the Old West. S P Crater can be climbed, and the lava flow can be viewed from the crater rim. C. J. Babbit, an 1880s rancher and early landowner of the mountain, expressed his opinion that the mountain resembled a pot of excrement (Shit Pot), and this became the accepted local name.When viewed from certain angles on the ground, the combination of the smooth round shape of the cone, the dark lava spatter on the rim, and the long dark lava flow extruding from the base do indeed resemble a toilet catastrophe. Mapmakers refused to spell out the full name, and the mountain has been shown on maps and other literature with the abbreviated name."