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Sunday, August 29, 2021

The Other California: There's More Out There Than The The Tar Tar Pits (and The Doing of a Good Thing at the Carpinteria Bluffs)

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  The first thing to know in this post is that this was once my home. My small growing family spent three years in the cramped condominiums ...
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Friday, August 20, 2021

The Other California: Catch it While You Can, the Devil's Slide

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California is nothing if not audacious. Our state possesses so many incredible landscapes known throughout the world: alpine mountain ranges...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

A Different Kind of "Other": Yosemite of the Pandemic

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Half Dome from Sentinel Bridge I've spent a fair amount of time writing about "The Other California" , the spectacular places ...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Some Otters for the Dog Days of Summer on a Special River

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The Tuolumne River is at a low ebb these days. It has been flowing at a mere 97 cubic feet per second for what seems like months now, a leve...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

The Other California: A Bit of the Rarest Ecosystem in SoCal at the North Etiwanda Preserve

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  This is ultimately a story about what may be the steepest mountain in the world (although I cannot yet confirm this). But the story involv...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

The Other California: What to See When You've Run Out of Postcard Destinations (Reprise)

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(published by Scope Enterprises, Inc) My earliest blog project was an exploration of the geologically interesting places in California t...
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Thursday, July 8, 2021

My Thesis Area is Misbehaving: 6.0 Earthquake Near Walker, California

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  That was exciting. I live in the Central Valley of California. The valley is famously boring for a number of reasons, and one of the good ...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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