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This landscape is typical of California during the dry season. By October the grasses are dull brown, but throughout the summer the straw-yellow hillsides show where the nickname "the golden state" comes from. Well, that and the gold rush, too, but this is gold that anyone can enjoy. The far hillsides are populated with oak trees. Notice the slump scar on the hillside on the left. In the distance, the river cuts a steep bank into an alluvial fan.
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San Benito River. View northwest.
