It wasn’t all that long ago (Carrizo Plain post, landing 2166, March 23, 2015) that I featured the San Andreas Fault in all of its glory. Hughes Lake is located directly on the San Andreas Fault and is one of a series of sag ponds in the foothills of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, including Elizabeth Lake, and Munz Lakes, all created by the active motion of tectonic plates. The Wiki entry for the town (Lake Hughes) doesn’t have much to say, except for a little bit of history (the town was named for a turn-of-the-century judge), and a discussion of the California and Los Angeles Aqueducts which are nearby (more about these later).īut it got more interesting when I took a look at the Wiki entry for Hughes Lake (the lake): Honestly: the lake is Hughes Lake and the town is Lake Hughes (ergo the title of this post). Here’s an oblique GE shot, showing that I landed in the mountains bordering a valley that includes Hughes Lake (the Lake) and Lake Hughes (the town). I guess it’s inevitable that sometimes Street View shots are directly into the sun. Note the long light-colored road or driveway that leads from the orange dude up towards my landing. (Note: I’m having technical issues with embedding the video. I think I’ll take my Google Earth (GE) spaceflight in before I do my watershed analysis. Here’s my regional landing map:Īs you can see, I’m pretty much out in the boonies, in spite of my proximity to the Megalopolis: Landing number 2186 A Landing A Day blog post number 614.ĭan: Hey. To find out more about A Landing A Day (like who “Dan” is and what the various numbers and abbreviations mean in the first paragraph), please see “About Landing,” (and “Abbreviations” and “Cryptic Numbers”) above. I do some internet research to hopefully find something of interest about my landing location. I call this “landing.” I keep track of the watersheds I land in, as well as the town I land near. ![]() ![]() Northwest Maine, along the Canadian Borderįirst timer? In this formerly once-a-day blog (and now pretty much a once-every-three-or-four days blog), I have my computer select a random latitude and longitude that puts me somewhere in the continental United States (the lower 48).Paso Colorado Crossing, Bone Watering and Dryden, Texas.Indian Hot Springs (near Eden, Arizona).
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