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Alameda County

Mission Peak from the Switchbacks on the Horse Heaven Trail

Photograph taken 19-Nov-05.

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Mission Peak as seen from the west.

Photograph taken 23-Oct-2005.

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San Francisco Bay Area from Mission Peak

Photograph taken 19-Nov-05.

The city of Fremont is directly below the mountain, and Coyote Hills are in the middle distance.

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San Francisco Bay in the early morning.

Photograph taken in the early morning on 4-Dec-05.

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Almaden

Looking north toward San Jose from Alamden, California.

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Oak tree in the hills at Almaden.

Cheryl waves "Hello."

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Former mine at Almaden, California.

The concrete structures were ore bins.

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Former mining offices at Almaden, California.

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Atascadero

View of Atascadero on a hazy winter afternoon.

This view is looking east from a hill on the west side of Atascadero. The city hall of Atascadero is the domed structure in the center of the photograph. The Salinas River is behind the city hall and the hills to the right and left. Photograph taken in January 2002.

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Bakersfield

The 4Runner with 100,000 Miles.

Photograph taken 25 April 2005.

As we were descending into Bakersfield on California Highway 58, the 4Runner turned over 100,000 miles at General Beale Road. We got off to buy some produce and to take this photo.


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Bear Valley Reservoir

Bear Valley Reservoir, seen from Tilden Park.

Photograph taken 1 May 2005.

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Bitterwater

Bitterwater, San Benito County, California.

There are many places named "Bitterwater," "Bitterwater Lake," or "Bitterwater Spring" in California. The DeLorme Atlas lists 8 places. Gudde's (1969) California Place Names notes that there are more than 50 Bitter Creeks and Lakes and Bitterwater Canyons in California. "Amargosa" is the Spanish adjective for "bitter."

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Junction of CA Hwy 25 and Coalinga Road near Bitterwater.

Coalinga Road provides access to Clear Creek and the New Idria area.


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Buttonwillow

California Aqueduct.

California Highway 58 crosses the California Aqueduct near Buttonwillow. Photograph taken in May 2001.


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Businesses at Buttonwillow Junction

Nearly every gas station, fast food joint, and cheap motel chain is represented at Buttonwillow Junction. The actual town of Buttonwillow is 3 miles west on Highway 58. Photograph taken in May, 2001.


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Highway 58 Through Buttonwillow

The agricultural businesses of Buttonwillow have grown up on both sides of California Highway 58.


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Cooperative Cotton Gin near Buttonwillow.

Cotton is a major crop in the southern San Joaquin Valley. This very large cotton gin is along side California Highway 58 near Buttonwillow. Photograph taken in May 2001.


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Carson Basin

Hope Valley, looking southwest from CA Hwy 89.

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.

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Cerro Gordo

Upper part of Cerro Gordo Road

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Hoist House, Cerro Gordo Mine.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Inside the American Hotel

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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View of Owens Lake and Keeler from the Cerro Gordo Road.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Last Mile of Cerro Gordo Road.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Front of the American Hotel.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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The Cerro Gordo Road works it way up the hill.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Looking toward Cerro Gordo from the vicinity of the Sunset Mine.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Looking into Saline Valley from Cerro Gordo

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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General Store in Cerro Gordo.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Steve has lunch on the porch of the American Hotel.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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View of Cerro Gordo from the entrance to the town.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Sign at the bottom of the hill.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Lower end of tramway at Cerro Gordo.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Inside the American Hotel

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Steve wanted me to think we were going just a little way up this road ….

… but I knew we were going to the top.

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Two guys on top of the hill.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Cerro Gordo from a ridge to the southwest.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Looking up the Cerro Gordo Road.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Contra Costa County

Point Edith Salt Marsh

This is a CNPS field trip to see a small population of Cordylanthus mollis at Point Edith.


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Mount Diablo as seen from Mission Peak.

Photograph taken 23-Oct-2005.

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Eel River

Eel River between Dyerville and McCann

Photograph taken August 3, 2003.

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Fremont Peak

Fremont Peak Observatory from the Peak

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07.

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Fremont Peak from San Juan Valley

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07 from the San Juan Highway north of San Juan Bautista.

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San Juan Bautista as seen from Fremont Peak.

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07.

San Juan Bautista and the San Juan Valley are in the middleground. The view is just west of north.

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Interpretive sign at Fremont Peak.

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07.

This interpretive sign is at the upper parking lot, near the trailhead for the peak trail.

Fremont Peak was called Gavilan Peak in early Spanish times, Gavilan in English meaning hawk. In 1846, Capt. John Charles Fremont brevet captain of topographical engineers of the United States Army, was conducting a survey and exploring expedition in Oregon and California. His presence with an armed force in the settled area was objected to by Prefect Manuel Castro and General Jose Castro and the California authorities. He was ordered to leave. Instead Fremont prepared to resist this request. He ascended Gavilan Peak where he built a fort of logs. A sapling was cut for a flagpole and on March 6, 1846, Fremont raised the flag of the United States. Castro had his forces below at San Juan Bautista. But before any attack was made, Fremont's flagpole blew down on the afternoon of March 9. Fremont taking this as a bad omen broke camp in the night and moved on toward the San Joaquin. So open battle was avoided. After this episode Gavilan Peak again became the meeting place for hawks.
Elevation 3169 feet.

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Fremont Peak from the Salinas Valley near Natividad

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07 from Old Stage Road, just south of Natividad.

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Fremont Peak seen from San Juan Grade Road

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07.

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End of the road at Fremont Peak.

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07.

There are two campgrounds. Valley View Campground is just down the road to the left, and Oak Point Campground is on the knoll in the center of the photo. The main picnic area is between the parking lot and the Oak Point Campground.The Fremont Peak Observatory is out of the photo to the right.

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Fresno County

Looking northeast in downtown Coalinga

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

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View of Warthan Canyon.

Photograph taken 5-Feb-06.

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Historic house in Coalinga.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

This house was pointed out to us as being "historic" by the folks in the museum.

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View northwest from Coalinga.

Photograph taken 5-Feb-06.

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Photograph of hotel at Fresno Hot Springs

Courtesy of Ed Kreyenhagen.

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Oil pump northwest of Coalinga

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06 on Derrick Road between downtown Coalinga and Los Gatos Road.

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Entrance to Coalinga Hot Springs

Photograph taken 5-Feb-06.

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R. C. Baker Oil Museum

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

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Campground at Coalinga Mineral Springs

Photograph taken 5-Feb-06.

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Looking east from the west end Los Gatos Road.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.


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Kreyenhagen Peak from Coalinga Mineral Springs

Photograph taken 5-Feb-06.

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The west end of Los Gato Road, at Coalinga Road.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.


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General view of (then) Fresno Hot Springs

Courtesy of Ed Kreyenhagen.

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Oil field northwest of Coalinga.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06 on Derrick Road between downtown Coalinga and Los Gatos Road.

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Group photo at Fresno Hot Springs

Courtesy of Ed Kreyenhagen.

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Looking southwest on the main street of Coalinga.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

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Springs at Coalinga Mineral Springs

Photograph taken 5-Feb-06.

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Gabilan Range

A portion of San Juan Grade Road.

Photograph taken 28-Apr-07.


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Stonewall Canyon with Salinas Valley beyond.

Photograph taken 11-Nov-05.

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Panorama of Stonewall Canyon, west of Pinnacles National Monument

Photograph taken 11-Nov-05.

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Graeagle

Bathers in Graeagle Lake.

Photograph taken August, 1992.


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Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Eel River at Dyerville (site)

Photograph taken August 1, 2003. Photo was taken from the main flow of the Eel River. The North Fork of the enters under the railroad bridge, and the South Fork enters from the right, behind the minivan.

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Independence

Mary Austin house in Independence on U. S. Highway 395.

Mary Austin wrote many books about the desert, the most well-known is The Land of Little Rain.

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Inner Coast Ranges

General view east along Coalinga Road.

Photograph taken in early April, 2000. View east toward the Clear Creek and New Idria area.


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Keeler

Former depot in Keeler.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.


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Sierra talc plant in Keeler.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Former depot in Keeler.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Keeler from Cerro Gordo.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Kern Canyon

Entrance to Kern Canyon near Bakersfield

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Lower Kern Canyon

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South Fork Valley

Between Weldon and Onyx.


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Kern County

View east from Walker Pass into Indian Wells Valley

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

Steve is on the Pacific Crest Trail. The vegetation here is Pinyons, Juniper, Big Sagebrush, and Bitterbrush.

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Cheryl at the Desert Tortoise Natural Area.

Photograph taken 19 April 2005.

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Looking northeast toward Buttonwillow along California Highway 58.

Photograph taken 19 April 2005.

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Looking west from California Highway 58, Cymric Oil Field on ridge.

Photograph taken 19 April 2005.

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Blackwells Corners, "World's Largest Parking Lot"

Photograph taken 20-April-06.

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Lower Kern River

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

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View from Robber's Roost toward Freeman Junction.

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

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Looking south to Robber's Roost from Soldier Wells.

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

Robber's Roost was used by the robber Tiburcio Vasquez from about 1850 to 1874. He and his gang robbed stages and freight wagons carrying gold ores and bullion from the mines of the Eastern Sierra to Los Angeles and Bakersfield. As a defense against his robbery the Cerro Gordo mines made 300 pound silver balls that couldn't be carried on horseback.

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View northwest from Walker Pass.

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

I think the flat topography in the distance would be termed the Kern Plateau.


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Ooops …

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

We turned off of Highway 178 at what I now think was Soldier Wells, and followed a little road in the direction of Robber's Roost. It was a good little road, but there were no recent tire tracks. The reason why there were no tire tracks on the little road became obvious when we arrived at Robbers Roost. In the middle of the road was a red stick. On our side it said nothing. But the other side, "Route Closed." After taking the photograph, we drive around the sign. There was no way I was going to drive all the way back to Highway 178, and then try to find a route that was not closed.

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Looking south to Robber's Roost from Soldier Wells.

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

This was a great little road. But we noticed it had not had much traffic on it lately.

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Looking south across Walker Pass.

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

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Steve inspects the weather station in Walker Pass.

Photograph taken July 15, 2005.

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King City

Broadway Street, the main street of King City.

King City was named for C. H. King, who laid out the town on his Rancho San Lorenzo when the Southern Pacific was extended to that place in 1886. Monterey County Route G-13 follows Broadway Street while in King City.

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Lonoak Road in King City.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.


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Lake Crowley

Lake Crowley and the White Mountains

Photograph taken October 7, 2000.

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Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe at Kings Beach.

Looking south toward Freel Peak behind Heavenly Valley and South Lake Tahoe.

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Lassen National Park

View of Lassen Peak from Emigrant Pass.

Photograph taken October, 1980.

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View of Bumpass Hell

Photograph taken October, 1980.


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Laws

Laws Depot

Photograph taken July 17, 2005.

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The train at the Laws Railroad Museum.

Photograph taken July 17, 2005.

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Locomotive #9 at the Laws Museum

Photograph taken July 17, 2005.

Engine No. 9 started her career on the N.C.O. prior to being assigned to Owens Valley service in 1929.

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Front of the Laws Museum.

Photograph taken July 17, 2005.

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Lewis Creek

Old cars protect the bank from erosion along Lewis Creek.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

At Lonoak, Lonoak Road crosses Lewis Creek and passes between Monterey and San Benito Counties. Here old cars have been placed along the creek banks to reduce erosion.

I have some photos of Lewis Creek a little further upstream that show a broad alluviated channel with a small stream in the middle, a sign that the stream is quite underfit, i.e., the sediment load far exceeds the carrying capacity of the stream. Lewis Creek drains a fairly large area that includes Priest Valley, following the San Andreas Fault Zone from there to this location in Lonoak. The combination of a large drainage area, steep topography, and ground-up rock in the fault zone, probably yields some high flood waters with large sediment loads on occasion, leading the local residents to try embedding the autos in the creek banks to reduce erosion.

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Looking upstream on Lewis Creek.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

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Settlement of Lonoak.

Photograph taken 4-Feb-06.

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Loleta

Southport Landing Bed & Breakfast

Photograph taken August 3, 2003.

I'm not really into the bed and breakfast scene, but this was probably the best B&B experience I've had.


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Loleta Cheese Company

Photograph taken August 3, 2003.

This is a very interesting stop. They make cheese seven days a week.

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Lone Pine

Mount Whitney.

I left Lone Pine early one May morning, bound for the Nelson Range and Hunter Mountain. The sun had just come up over the Inyo Mountains and was shining stongly. I pulled over just to take this picture of Mount Whitney from U. S. Highway 395, near Lone Pine.

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Los Angeles

Tom just behind the graves of his grandparents, Anna and Peter Pawluk.

The graves are located in Evergreen Cemetery, Section E, Plot 4500.

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Gravestones for Anna and Peter Pawluk.

The graves are located in Evergreen Cemetery, Section E, Plot 4500.

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View of Evergreen Cemetery, Graves of Anna and Peter Pawluk in Foreground.

The graves are located in Evergreen Cemetery, Section E, Plot 4500.

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Manzanar

Manzanar.

Manzanar, on U. S. Highway 395 south of Lone Pine, was an one of ten internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were sent to live during World War II. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's 1973 book, Farewell to Manzanar, is a very readable account of one young woman's experience there.

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Marin County

Tomales Bay from Mount Vision.

Houses in the trees of the town of Inverness. Millerton Point is across the bay on the right. Mount Saint Helens is in the diatance.

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Point Reyes from Mount Vision.

The road is closed now short of the summit of Mount Vision. So this is a view from nearby. This view shows Drakes Estero and Drakes Beach with Point Reyes beyond. The lighthouse is on the farthest, right-most point.

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Muir Beach from Muir Beach Ovelook.

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Looking north toward Bodega Bay from the hill above Dillon Beach.

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San Francisco from Muir Beach Ovelook.


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  • California Highway 1: 31300
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Cheryl surveys the coast from Muir Beach Overlook.

The point of land in the distance is Duxbury point, to the left of which is Duxbury Reef. Just visible over Duxbury Point is the faint outline of Point Reyes.


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  • California Highway 1: 31300
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Looking east across Tomales Bay.

Highway 1 is across the bay, in the trees near the water.


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  • California Highway 1: 30100
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Looking east across countryside north of Tomales.


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  • California Highway 1: 28800
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Downtown Tomales, California.

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  • Tomales, Marin County, California.

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Stinson Beach from California Highway 1

Stinson Beach is on sand bar that closes the mouth of Bolinas Lagoon. The ridge in the center distance is part of Point Reyes National Seashore. The San Andreas Rift Zone crosses the sand bar, passes through Bolinas Lagoon, and continues to the right (east) of the ridge line.

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  • California Highway 1: 31200
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Mariposa County

Bear Creek along California Highway 140.

Bear Creek drains an area near Mariposa into the Merced River.

Photograph taken May 13, 2005.

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Merced River below El Portal

Photograph taken May 13, 2005.


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California Highway 140 descends the canyon of Bear Creek.

Photograph taken May 13, 2005.

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McKittrick

View of the town of McKittrick.

McKittrick is an oil town in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley.

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Mineret Summit

Mineret Summit.

Stop at Mineret Summit for a view of the Minerets and the valley below. We didn't. Just zoomed right on by. Then when we turned the corner and saw the view, we had to find a place to turn around, and go back. This picture was taken in early morning.


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Monitor Pass

Slinkard Valley

Photograph taken August 1, 2004.


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Beginning of CA Highway 89 at US Hwy 395.

Photograph taken August 1, 2004.


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Sweetwater Mountains and Antelope Valley.

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.

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Silver Peak from Monitor Pass.

Photograph taken August 1, 2004.


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  • California Highway 89: 88300
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Monitor Pass with Leviathan Peak in the background.

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.

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Leviathan Mine

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.

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Lunch stop on Loop Road (Morningstar Road) near Monitor Pass.

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.


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Sagehen Flat and Heenan Lake, looking south.

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.

This photo was taken from Leviathan Mine Road near its intersection with California Highway 89. Looking south, Sagehen Flat is in the foreground, and Heenan Lake in the background. I think the mountain in the distance is Mineral Mountain.

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Paintbrush (Castilleja sp.) near Monitor Pass.

Photograph taken July 31, 2004.


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Monterey Bay

Moss Landing

Photograph taken December 1, 2002.

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Salinas River State Park.

The entrance to the park is at the south end of Moss Landing. Photograph taken December 1, 2002.


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Monterey County

Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad

Photograph taken November 22, 2003.

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Mission San Antonio de Padua

Photograph taken 6-Oct-06.

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Padre's Garden at Mission San Antonio de Padua.

Photograph taken 6-Oct-06.

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Dutton Hotel at Jolon

Photograph taken 6-Oct-06.

In 1849, Antonio Ramirez built a small adobe on the El Camino Real, near the site of the ancient Indian village, Holamna. As a main artery to California's gold fields, the El Camino Real brought many travelers past Ramirez's place. He transformed his adobe into an inn and stage stop and soon enjoyed a brisk business.

Eventually, the Inn became the nucleus of the town of Jolon. Ramirez sold the building in 1871 and it changed hands three more times before it was purchased by Lt. George Dutton and Capt. Thomas Tidball in 1876. Dutton, who became the sole owner in 1878, added a second story of adobe and wood frame structures at either end. Jolon's first post office was located at the Inn, and Dutton added a store and saloon. The saloon boasted a huge fireplace, 6 or 8 poker tables, and an ornate bar which came around the Horn.

By 1876, Jolon had grown into a thriving town serving the Los Burros Mines, surrounding ranches, and many travelers. However, when the railroad came to King City in 1886 traffic followed the railroad, and the old Camino Real fell into disuse. Soon after, the Los Burros Mines gave out as well, and business at the Dutton died down.

William Randolph Hearst purchased the property in 1929 and removed the Dutton's outbuildings as well as many other Jolon structures. In 1940, the U. S. Army acquired the property, and the adobe was used as a bivouac area. Vandalism and exposure to the elements finally destroyed the building, leaving only an adobe ruin. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic places in 1976.

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  • Jolon, Monterey County, California.

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Tidball Store at Jolon

Photograph taken 6-Oct-06.

In 1876, Capt. Thomas Tidball, a Civil War veteran and native of Pennsylvania opened a store in Jolon with his former military friend, George Dutton. Around 1878, the partnership was dissolved and Capt. Tidball moved his business a quarter mile south to a small adobe building constructed by the Pacific Coast Stage Company as a stopover for stage drivers. Incorporating parts of the original adobe, he built a two story redwood structure in the New England tradition. There he established a hotel, a general store, post office, livery stable and saloon. Tidball's establishment served miners, settlers and local Indians.

Tidball sold his business to the Ganoung brothers in 1900. They in turn sold it to the Duck family in 1913 for $1,500 in gold. The Duck family operated the store for six years.

Meanwhile the town's populaton dwindled away as King City became southern Monterey County's major center of trade. Ramona Duck Sutfin continued to operate the store off and on. It became the first service station in the area during the 1920's. Fire damaged the building in 1972 and it was closed. In 1978, Mrs. Sutfin deeded the store to the San Antonio Valley Historical Association who in turn deeded it to Monterey County. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic placed in 1976.

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  • Jolon, Monterey County, California.

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View of Indian Valley.

Photograph taken 18 April 2004.


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Salinas Valley and the Sierra de Salinas

This photograph was taken November 22, 2003, from the edge of US Highway 101 near Camphora.

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Interior of Church at Mission San Antonio de Padua

Photograph taken 6-Oct-06.

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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad

Photograph taken November 22, 2003.

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