SoCal eXploration & adventure

The Cabrillo Bridge, built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, was the first cantilevered, multiple-arched bridge to be built in Southern California..

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Abandoned bridge built in 1946 that crosses over and onto the 163 right next to Balboa Park..

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The Spruce Street Suspension Footbridge, built in 1912

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Heading into the darkness..

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Checking gear.
Checking maps.

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Couple hundred feet below the high desert..

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Many of the bigger mine prospects in the Boulder Creek area are fitted with gates to protect the local bat population..

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This is the deepest of the open shafts in the Boulder Creek area, at about 30 feet. Watch where you walk anytime you go off trails in SDC..

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Did you know there are old mine prospects in the Boulder Creek/Three Sister area?



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There's an impressive number of carved statues around the grounds, imported from Viet Nam..



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When in Rome..



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Thien Vien Chan Nguyen Buddhist Meditation Center near Adelanto in the high desert..



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