After watching the series finale of "Buffy" last night I went to view Sunnydale. Sunnydale had vanished Swallowed up by the destruction of the Hellmouth!!!
Seriously though, found this while tracing the Aquaduct. Thought it was a sinkhole at first, but looks like a mound with terrain on. Any thoughts?
-------------------- "And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky A human being that was given to fly"....Eddie Vedder
Nothing like waiting a year & a half for the answer! That's the "Devil's Punchbowl", something I've driven past the signs for, but until now, never looked up.
It's right off the Pear Blossom Highway, a somewhat decent way to avoid LA if you are going to Vegas from the lower Central Coast (i.e. Santa Barbara), but if you get stuck behind a semi....it's painful. I've always been curious as to what the heck it was from seeing the signs, now I know more. Good find!
(wow, my first post...and oh man Keyhole is about the coolest thing ever...now if I could overlay GPS Tracks...I'd never leave home... )
Welcome to Keyhole. You're right, Keyhole plus GPS are a very dangerous (timewise) and useful combination. Luckily for me, the suggestions given on how to combine them are way out of my league. Good link to Devil's Punchbowl, which in turn has lots of useful links. But I think what is shown in the original post is perhaps of volcanic (no longer active) origin. Try this attachment for Devil's Punchbowl.
More about Devil's Punchbowl. Mormon Rocks, about 21 miles ESE of Devil's Punchbowl, is the same formation of upended sedimentary strata as the Punchbowl. This formation had the unfortunate/lucky situation of sitting right astride the San Andreas Fault Zone. As the west side of the fault moved north-westward, east side moved in the opposite direction relatively. It is interesting to pan form one to the other with 3D on and note how easy it is to follow the fault. (Hint: turn on the measure line option, mark both ends of the line. this makes it easier to follow a path from one to another.)If you lived in Wrighwood, for instance, you'd be
Quote: living on the fault line
to quote the Doobie Bros. You can also use the tour option to bounce back and forth between the two outcrops, but then you miss all the nice low altitude details.
Wow, Earl, so, I thought I'd get notification emails when there was a reply to posts (didn't notice the favorites option before). And in retrospect, having re-found this, that's probably a good thing!
But thanks for the pointer! Given that GPS->KML XSLT...and the fact that I've never actually opened a KML before, but it's just XML...dang, I'm going to need to find some serious free time!
nice try but... no it is not the devils punchbowl. i lived in the area for several years and would hike the punchbowl from time to time.
what this is, is a very small hill off the highway... notice the shade on the north side? yeah... hill, not bowl. as you go more east you will find many more, includind one we would call "ant hill",... then there are the buttes and dunes at "lake los angeles" area (as seen in the movie "to live and die in l.a."
if you go over to piute butte there is a museum that is open 1-2 days per month that has the skeletal remains of 7 foot tall red haired indians.
yeah, this is a quite strange place to live... oh yeah... dont forget to visit saint andrews priory to the south of here... they have some mighty fine wine, those benedictine monks....
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of "Buffy" last night I went to view Sunnydale. Sunnydale had vanished 
Swallowed up by the destruction of the Hellmouth!!! 
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situation of sitting right astride the San Andreas Fault Zone. As the west side of the fault moved north-westward, east side moved in the opposite direction relatively. It is interesting to pan form one to the other with 3D on and note how easy it is to follow the fault. (Hint: turn on the measure line option, mark both ends of the line. this makes it easier to follow a path from one to another.)If you lived in Wrighwood, for instance, you'd be
