Tag: High Peaks

Juniper Canyon Trail to High Peaks Loop (Pinnacles National Park, CA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn California, Pinnacles National Park, Strenuous Hikes4 Comments

High Peaks Trail, Pinnacles National Park, March 2022 So jagged, sharp, and forbidding are the towering spires of central California’s Pinnacles National Park that there is no road able to bisect it, leaving visitors to drive up to the base of the breccia wonderland—and then hike the rest. The High Peaks area, easily the centerpiece …

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Condor Gulch – High Peaks Trail Loop (Pinnacles National Park, CA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn California, Pinnacles National Park, Strenuous Hikes4 Comments

Originally the work of volcanoes 23 million years ago, the rocks of today’s Pinnacles National Park were moved, upended, chiseled, and weathered by water, wind, and the infamous temper of the San Andreas Fault in central California. The result is a wild paradise of formations, boulders, spires, and talus caves, less than a two-hour’s drive …

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