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(Fri-Sun) Joaquin Rocks Backpack (M) San Benito County, Central California These dramatic rock formations overlook the San Joaquin Valley from the rim of the Diablo Range. Joaquin Rocks has been an important site to Yokut and Pomo peoples for more than 2000 years and during the goldrush era served as a hideout for bandit Joaquin Murietta. BLM ...
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John Muir & I
I came to a river, the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin. It rushed by swiftly over smooth, rounded cobbles. There were fishermen ... the time I reached the middle, with my feet hurting from the rocks, the water up to my knees, I remembered the cameras. They ... If I hadn't been worried before about bears, storms, earthquakes rolling rocks down onto the trail and all the other potential problems, I ...
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Outdoor Activities in Mount Diablo State Park - Points of Interest
Numerous picnic sites and campground. Gibraltar and Sentinel Rocks These are popular places near Rock City for rock climbing. ... with the ranger for regulations and the best approach. Castle Rocks These rugged rocks are located in the Northwestern portion of the park ... the Cascades at 10,466 feet. To the north the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers meet to form the twisting waterways of ...
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History of Mount Diablo
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, or standing on the elevated ridges of the mining districts before ... trees around, and the mountain in full view." The Survey gathered rocks, fossils and plants (including 25 plants not then known and ... beauty spots on earth with its magnificent views of the Castle Rocks." 1876 The US Coast and Geodetic Survey erected a three- ...
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Scott Anderson in Afghanistan - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Fresno, California, into a ranching family with deep roots in the San Joaquin Valley, and whatever it was about that environment—the pastoral setting, ... that they made a sound rather like that of water cascading onto rocks. We had at last climbed out of the river gorge and ...
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About Mount Diablo
The older core rocks were formed far at sea at a spreading ocean ... riding on any of the roads in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, or standing on the elevated ridges of the mining districts ... trees around, and the mountain in full view." The Survey gathered rocks, fossils and plants (including 25 plants not then known and ...
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Self Guided Hikes
At (7), a group of rocks to the left of the trail, several grinding holes can be seen ... you look out across a series of beautiful ridges toward the San Joaquin River, the Delta, and on a clear day, the snow-capped High ... a fifth plant community, the creek's riparian woodland, with moss-covered rocks, namesake sycamores and big leaf maples (1.9 miles). The trail ...
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Desert Habitat - Defenders of Wildlife
Dog, Black-Tailed Red Wolf Right Whale River Otter Salmon San Joaquin Kit Fox Sea Otter Sea Turtles Sharks Snow Leopard Snowy Owl ... expect. Some are found on a flat shield of ancient crystalline rocks hardened over many millions of years, yielding flat deserts of rock ... Dog, Black-Tailed Red Wolf Right Whale River Otter Salmon San Joaquin Kit Fox Sea Otter Sea Turtles Sharks Snow Leopard Snowy Owl ...
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Hopper Mountain National Wildife Refuge Complex
San Joaquin Valley. Today condors are being reintroduced into the mountains of southern California north of the ... water is available they will clean their heads and necks by rubbing them on grass, rocks, or tree branches. Roosting Condors spend most of their time perched, sunning and preening. Condors ...
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