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“He may be just a tramp, a guy that likes to roam about this great country without any special aim, just to thank the Lord for these beautiful mountains.”
-B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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“. . .here, where there are still the silences and the loneliness of the earth before man, . . .”
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A Snowy Rose Valley Falls
The typically ephemeral and lackluster waterfall at Rose Valley Campground in Ventura County seen here, center frame, as a mere vertical blackened bare spot lost amidst the more eye catching snow-frosted mountain.
Fossilized Sand Dollar
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Jack Elliott's Santa Barbara Adventure 