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backpacking · California camping · Central Coast · hiking · Los Padres National Forest · outdoor adventure trips · primitive camping ·May 15, 2024

East Fork Lion, Los Padres

🥾 Rose Lion Connector Trail to Lion Canyon Trail. Break off to East Fork Lion Campground near falls. (image of lower falls) Keep an eye out for trail markers. 🌿 The last half mile is overgrown and washed out. Markers...

adobe · California camping · desert camping · Joshua Tree National Park · primitive camping · Ryan Campground ·Nov 03, 2022

Ryan Ranch Adobe

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...

4x4 · California camping · desert camping · hiking · outdoor adventure trips · primitive camping · Trona Pinnacles ·Nov 03, 2022

Trona Pinnacles

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,...