tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post212796207161671299..comments2024-03-17T18:37:36.377-07:00Comments on Geotripper: Pinnacles National Monument: A Strange Landscape in California's Coast RangesGarry Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-77628411014913493322019-09-10T18:10:51.365-07:002019-09-10T18:10:51.365-07:00Do you happen to know where the other half of Moun...Do you happen to know where the other half of Mount Calavera in Carlsbad, CA is located? It is also a 22-23 million year old volcano.ojosrojoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799086145843786891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-82726841805791762382012-11-21T17:52:29.012-08:002012-11-21T17:52:29.012-08:00Touche! Yeah, I know the difference, especially af...Touche! Yeah, I know the difference, especially after the episode a few summers ago when some folks wanted to remove serpentine (serpentinite) as our CA state rock. I was just following the lead of our legislature in getting the definitions backward....Garry Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-74239608629799053242012-11-21T16:05:37.626-08:002012-11-21T16:05:37.626-08:00I definitely need to see Pinnacles again. Being i...I definitely need to see Pinnacles again. Being in the south San Francisco Bay there's no excuse for it having been over 20 years. Your wonderful pics inspire me.<br /><br />But Gary, if I may pick a bone (as someone who recently wrote an MS thesis on the rocks surrounding the Santa Clara Valley): it's _serpentinite_. Serpentine is a mineral group.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03079852628674185384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-78102487236191742202012-11-20T13:02:19.083-08:002012-11-20T13:02:19.083-08:00Wow. That is completely FREAKY about the other hal...Wow. That is completely FREAKY about the other half being in Mojave. Jeepers.<br /><br />I LOVE Pinnacles. Have only been there once, but on a short hike I saw a swimming snake (garter, I think??), dozens of exoskeltons of dragonfly nymphs (on reeds emerging from a pond) that had emerged from the water to become their winged adult selves. Then I had hopped a smidge off trail and spied an outcrop of stones with lateral cracks in them (almost sunk into the hillside, so I'd never have seen it from the trail) that a large snake had used to shed the outer layer of skin. A perfect, LARGE intact skin. Of course I left it there, but it took some serious will power. =)<br /><br />And that's not even mentioning the condors (which I didn't see) and the bats and rare froggies (which I did!).<br /><br />What a cool, cool park.biobabblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15081382623906668057noreply@blogger.com