Covid Father's Day: My lovely bride said she go anywhere I wanted - even the places she'd typically not be that into...
So I'd been wanting to take a Atlas-Obscura-inspired drive up and around the nearby San Andreas Fault. It runs just a dozen or so mile northeast of our home, and for years I'd been wanting to go exploring up there.
The "Devil's Punchbowl" - another interesting outcropping of the seismic activity in the area. Also a great hike!
Evidence of the San Andreas and it's terra-forming!
The California Aqueduct - yes, it carries its life-giving elixir across the San Andreas many times...
I'd heard of Lost Lake most of my life, but had never been there. It takes a bit of orr-road trails to get there, and I was rather excited to see it. Technically it's not a lake but a "sag pond", a "body of water that has collected in a depression formed between the two sides of an active strike-slip fault zone. They are usually small and narrow, and lay lengthwise directly over the fault.
Lost Lake is supposedly “bottomless” and fed from deep underground springs that rise up through the fault. During wildfire season, it's sometimes used as a water source for water-dropping helicopters, and locals claim it's never been able to be drained.
My beautiful bride, great hiker and always a trooper, was more than just a little amused when she finally saw the great lake I'd been talking about for years... lol
