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11.
Sandstone Pilings

THE TRAIL UP TO the Pass wove through the red and purple dirt of the Sespe formation. Blue belly lizards shot ahead, stopping to look back, only to dart further along before disappearing into the short, turpinoid scrub. Every so often a stand of weathered sandstone stood collecting shoots of bonsai manzanita, juvenile oaks, grasses and succulent chalk dudleyas in the crack of the rock’s black and red cream surface. After some consideration, one realized that the sandstone pilings—weighing many tons—were not outcroppings but piles of stones that had split from the upper ridges centuries ago, rolling down the mountain to a stop where wind and rain smoothed the corners and burled knobs.