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Castle Craigs I
Castle Craigs State Park - Castle Craig, California
Towering above the upper Sacramento Valley are the sky-scraping spires of granite called the Castle Crags.
The Crags were formed in much the same way as nearby Mt. Shasta and the other peaks of the Cascade Range, by volcanic activity some 200 million years ago. For the last million years, the Crags were shaped by wind, rain, ice and even some small glaciers, which have shaped the granite into its distinctive shapes.
In 1855, the territory below the Crags was the site of a struggle between local native people and settlers. The locals, armed only with bows and arrows, were driven from their land in a one-sided battle that was chronicled by Joaquin Miller, “poet of the High Sierra.” Photo © copyright by Erik and Melissa Barnes.
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