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Winter sports enthusiasts from both ends of the Grapevine know the Frazier Mountain area for its snow-covered slopes, while warm-weather adventurers love it for its many miles of hiking trails, campgrounds and off-road vehicle routes...
Posted by admin
- Fri Aug 17, 2007 15:17:27 PDT
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Mojave is one of those amazing places you can only find in Kern County: a tiny desert town on one hand, home of the country's first licensed spaceport on the other.
That juxtaposition hurtled into the nation's consciousness in 2004,...
Posted by admin
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 08:38:43 PDT
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The "Secret City" nickname once given to this town in the high Mojave Desert may not be working any longer.
With its deep, Old West history as well as a thriving future (thanks to the Navy's largest facility at China Lake)...
Posted by admin
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 17:14:26 PDT
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Located just 18 miles northwest of Bakersfield is the city of Shafter.
The north Kern County town was founded in 1911 and incorporated on Jan. 19, 1938. Shafter was named after William R. Shafter, a Civil War general who died at the...
Posted by admin
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 16:48:49 PDT
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In the mid-1920s, back in what some people consider the oil industry's heyday here, there were an estimated 7,000 wooden oil derricks as far as the eye could see surrounding the city of Taft and into the landscapes of nearby...
Posted by admin
- Thu Aug 9, 2007 08:45:58 PDT
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Tehachapi is a bustling town that retains the aura of a sleepy little village.
The main street, Tehachapi Boulevard, is littered with small mom-and-pop shops and cozy diners. Despite its provincial exterior, Tehachapi enjoys a...
Posted by admin
- Thu Aug 9, 2007 08:32:59 PDT
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Love was in the air this year at the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in Rosamond, yielding a bumper crop of new cubs.
To support this new round of babies, the compound is holding a fund-raiser called a Twilight Tour Saturday. For...
Posted by admin
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:23:00 PDT
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Does Hollywood need another trendy strip? Aren’t Sunset, Hollywood and Melrose enough?
Yes to the first question, and no to the second, according to bar and nightclub owners on North Cahuenga Boulevard. Dubbed the Cahuenga...
Posted by admin
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 16:53:26 PDT
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Kern River Valley is one of California's best kept secrets. With many activities, including fishing, hiking, camping, windsurfing, skiing, or just relaxing, the lake itself has much to offer. While Lake Isabella is the center of the Kern...
Posted by admin
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 16:49:26 PDT
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At Silver City Ghost Town in Bodfish near
Isabella
Lake in the Kern River Valley, visitors can step back in time to a bygone era. The old doors creak, the hanging violin almost never stops swaying in the wind & the...
Posted by magickman
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 16:46:07 PDT
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The Tehachapi Loop is without a doubt one of the great engineering feats of the nineteenth century. Viewing area located on Woodford-Tehachapi Road approximately 8 miles west of Tehachapi.
The line derives its name from the circuitous...
Posted by admin
- Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:29:05 PDT
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McKITTRICK, Calif. — It began innocently enough, like most casual obsessions. Annie Moore dropped a penny into an empty coffee can. Clink.
And then another. Clink. And soon enough, many, many more. Mrs. Moore began scouring...
Posted by admin
- Sun Jun 3, 2007 11:20:15 PDT
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Between Mono Lake and Bishop are several freshwater lakes stocked with brown, brook, rainbow and cutthroat. Trout, that is. The state Department of Fish & Game and area trout rancher Tim Alper have reportedly stocked 1.4 million...
Posted by admin
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 17:25:50 PST
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After a strenuous 2 ½ -mile hike, I arrive at High Peaks, the saw-edged cluster of spires at the center of Pinnacles National Monument. It is here that the trail changes to near-vertical stair steps carved out of bedrock. Due to...
Posted by admin
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 17:14:52 PST
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It’s a way to see your neighbors in a different setting. Instead of a flat valley backdrop, there are green hills and a vast ocean. Instead of dry air, there is a salty coastal breeze. Any given day, this remote beach town six...
Posted by admin
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 17:05:37 PST
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