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A bit closer view of the Gorn looking at the Ojai Valley
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Beautiful Day in the Ojai Valley
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The Gorn poses with the exact epicenter of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake
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Random signage off of the highway heading into the Ojai Valley
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As far as the Gorn wanted to go along the trail in the snow
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Getting ready to do a short cross country trek in the snow along the Wolverton Trail
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Near the Big Trees museum area along the Big Trees trail. To see some Big Trees...
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The Gorn with a great National Park entrance sign at Sequoia National Park
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The Gorn looks up at some Giant Sequoias along the Big Trees Trail in Sequoia National Park
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Returning to Hearst Castle for the first time since 2000, the Gorn poses with Casa Grande
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The Gorn pauses to look at the Elephant Seals along the Central California coast on the way back from Hearst Castle
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After a long day of vacation, the Gorn poses with the Golden Gate bridge from a higher vantage-point than usual in the Marin Headlands
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Posing with the map of the trail. Currently you cannot go all the way to Treasure Island, but hopefully in a year or two the Gorn will be back to complete the hike (maybe with a bike!)
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On the way to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Gorn stops near Watsonville, CA at The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, home to the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
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Just inside the park gates, the signage for the trail lengths. Someday in the future, the Gorn will hike to the epicenter sign. It's a 4 mile hike through forests and some Poison Oak so precautions need to me made!