
Sky Valley to Thousand Palms
Hiking across the two branches of the San Andreas fault in Coachella Valley: the Mission Creek Fault and Banning Fault via a canyon that goes from Sky Valley through the Indio Hills to Thousand Palms. I don't know the name of the canyon, so I'm arbitrarily calling it "Quarry Canyon" since there are the remains of an old quarry midway through it, and it there are quarries where it ends in Thousand …
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Camp at Old Quarry (7160)
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Camp at Old Quarry (7156)
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Camp at Old Quarry (7157)
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Ancient Fire Remains (7135)
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According to the expert (Pat), this layer of burned material is left behind from a fire that occurred about 3 to 5 million years ago.
Ancient Fire Remains (7134)
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According to the expert (Pat), this layer of burned material is left behind from a fire that occurred about 3 to 5 million years ago.
Old Quarry (7145)
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Old Quarry (7148)
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Old Quarry (7147)
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Verbena (7138)
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Tires in Tamarisk (7155)
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Graffiti in Camp at Old Quarry (7158)
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Retired Automobile (7166)
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Graffiti (7141)
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Thousand Palms Pano
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Retired Automobile (7154)
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Flowers (7144)
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Slickenside (7132)
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When fault movement forces two rocks to slide against each other you sometimes get slickensides like this very slick rock.
Retired Automobile (7151)
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