2.10.06

F I R S TP R E V398NEXTLAST

Old Truck on the San Andreas Fault, Olema Valley
About twenty minutes north of San Francisco stretches the pastoral charm that is Olema Valley. 150 years ago the valley supplied much of the redwood and fir used to build San Francisco and today the valley is populated only by a few Victorian cattle farms owned by the National Park Service. The San Andreas Fault slices straight through the nine-mile valley dividing the Point Reyes National Seashore, on its Pacific Plate, and the Golden Gate National Recreational Area (and the rest of the continent), on the North American Plate. As if to underscore this topological tension point, two valley creeks, the Olema and Pine Gulch, run parallel to each other and the fault, but they run in opposite directions.
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