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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #29a

Devil's Punch Bowl, Palms Springs CA, April 2012
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Third annual trip to Palm Springs takes us on this scenic route via SR 138 east out of Grapevine near Sandberg, CA townsite.
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Took Pine Canyon Road along the rigdes looking down over the semi-arid Antelope Valley.
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Tehachapi Mountains behind Antelope Valley.
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Happened by a sign for Devil's Punchbowl east of Palmdale and decided to check it out.
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Devil's Punchbowl is a big jumble of rocks sticking out of the desert scrub on the San Andreas fault, similar to Pinnacles National Monument farther north up the fault.
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Fort Tejon ghost town site at the junction of Fort Tejon Road and Big Pines Highway.
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View of the back side of Devil's Punchbowl from Big Pines Highway with San Gabriel Mountains in background.
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Arrived Palm Springs and decided I'm going to hike that ridge behind the hotel this time.
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