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Joshua Tree National Park is an explorer’s paradise. The area requires navigation skills, using large rock formations and the sun, if not a map and compass. Early settlers to the area aptly named sections of the park, including Hidden Valley,...
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Ryan Ranch is an abandoned adobe in Joshua Tree National Park. The Ryan brothers built a ranch and bunkhouse at this location in 1896, securing a homestead site adjacent to a natural spring, now dry. Spring water was used for the Lost...
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The tufa pinnaces at Trona were formed 10.000 to 100.000 years ago when Sierra Nevada snow melt flowed through a chain of glacial lakes, including Searles Lake. When groundwater pushed through fissures in the lakebed, calcium carbonate was formed, and,...
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