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This is HistoryCake, the Altadena Golf Course tour.

Highway 395 runs north south through the eastern side of California above the Cajon Pass. Highway 14 runs from the San Fernando Pass through Mojave to join the 395 just west of RidgeCrest. Today we will journey through the past of the land around you and the hooves and footprints of those before you. Welcome to HistoryCake!

Hello and welcome to HistoryCake, The Sphinx Ranch walking tour. Let's begin where a traveller of yesteryear would, down at the meeting of Pepper and New York Drive and take a nice walk through the vines and fruit orchards of the William Allen family "Sphinx Ranch" of the late 1880's as you breathe the clean mountain air they came here for.

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview
Newhall and Placerita Canyon

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview
The meeting of two different and distinct mountain ranges and their geologic collision.

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview
Where water from the owens valley meets the sunshine of the san fernando valley north of the san fernando mission.

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview
The Van Norman dam was built in 1913 to create a reservoir higher than the san fernando valley floor. It was the then endpoint for the owens valley aqueduct.

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview
As we transition between the San Gabriel range and the Mojave basin, we are at a good point to consider the type of land formation and deformation creating the topography around us.