I wasn't thinking about condors as I drove through the dusty foothills of Central California approaching Pinnacles National Park. The surreal scenery within Pinnacles, America's newest national park, was too distracting. Rocky spires and craggy buttresses soared above softly rounded foothills. The alien landscapes bore no resemblance to each other. Score one for the San Andreas fault, I later learned, which dragged the volcanic formations known as Pinnacles a couple of hundred miles northwest from Los Angeles County atop the Pacific plate. It made me nervous just thinking about what would happen when the next big earthquake rumbles to life along the San Andreas. No wonder I forgot about the...
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