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The highway continues north. For 200 miles, from 

 Walker Pass (reached by a highway through Freeman Canyon, 

 five miles south of Indian Wells) north to Tioga Pass, west of 

 Mono Lake, there is no pass across the Sierra Nevada Range. 

 A highway leads southeast from Lone Pine to Death Valley and 

 the central Mojave Desert. 



ROUTE D. Los ANGELES, VIA COAST LINE TO 

 SAN FRANCISCO. 471 MILES 



Los Angeles River Above the City 



The route lies along the Los Angeles River for 10 miles. 

 Los Angeles River flows out of the San Fernando Valley, and 

 crosses through a sag in an anticlinal ridge which connects the 

 Santa Monica Mountains with the Repetto and Puente Hills. 

 The rocks along the west side of the river in Elysian Park are 

 shales and sandstones of Miocene (Tertiary) age. To the west 

 are the Santa Monica Mountains; to the north the San Gabriel 

 Range. The Verdugo Mountains and the San Rafael Hills on 

 the right are geologically part of the San Gabriel Range, cut off 

 by faults. The fault scarp, which forms the southwest wall of 

 the Verdugo Mountains and the San Rafael Hills, stands boldly 

 in a nearly straight line from Pasadena to Pacoima. A stream 

 cuts across from La Canada Valley to Los Angeles River, sepa- 

 rating the Verdugo Mountains from the San Rafael Hills. The 

 stream is what is called an "antecedent" stream; that is, it was 

 there before the disturbance by which the mountains were up- 

 lifted, and kept on its way during the slow uplifting. The 

 city of Glendale is built on an alluvial fan built by this stream. 

 The city of Burbank stands upon waste detritus from the fault 

 scarp which forms the mountain side north. 



Burbank, 11 miles (El. 555 feet); San Fernando, 22 miles 

 (El. 1,076 feet) ; Santa Susana Pass, 34 miles (El. 1,604 feet) ; 

 Moorpark, 50 miles (El. 511 feet); Santa Paula, 68 miles (El. 

 288 feet) ; Ojai, 85 miles (El. 743 feet) ; Ventura, 98 miles (El. 

 13 feet) ; Santa Barbara, 126 miles (El. 37 feet). 



