California mountain road contain numerous “hogbacks” as my friend, Darlene, calls the switchbacks on the way to Sequoia National Park. It turns out that those same kinds of roads exist on the Coastal Redwood Highway as well. This park called Mystery Trees was about where our truck’s worn out transmission tired of lugging our new trailer. 
We rented a car and enjoyed the “break.” Not only did the roads and the paths twist and turn, so did the trees, providing beauty and shade. 
When we did get going again, the fog wanted us to slow down more than the zigzags. 
These zigzags are closer to home – to anyone’s home. I never tire of the zigzag shapes of tree branches. These trees are in an educational property called Circle J Ranch owned by Tulare County Office of Education where I worked. It is close to a tiny town called Springville, east of Porterville, CA.
I apologize for the quality of this picture. I heard that someone zig zagged on their responsibilities to posterity, and put the archives in the trash instead of the scanning machine, so this is the best picture I have. In this newspaper picture it was the Kaweah (Kuh wee’ uh) River that zagged.
The headwaters for the Kaweah River begin their zig zag course out of the Great Western Divide where mountain summits rise to over 12, 000 feet. The North Fork, which is just east of us begins at 9,000 feet. If the river could go down the mountain in a straight line, the Kaweah River would drop in excess of 2 vertical miles in a distance of 30 linear miles. The Kaweah River loses the same altitude as the Colorado River, but is 97% shorter. It is the steepest river in the United States. Even with a dam to control flooding, in 1969 the water zig zagged its own way into the Woodlake Valley. (Tilchen, Mark. Floods of the Kaweah)
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10 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: ZigZag”
In seeing all these zig zag posts, so far I have not seen one with a zig zag bridge, which are common in Japanese and Chinese gardens.
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What a place to have a breakdown! It looks both beautiful and mysterious. The Woodlake flooding must have quite devastating. 😦
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It was before I lived here, but after they built the dam to stop the flooding. It looked pretty bad. It used to happen every few years. We fluctuate between floods and droughts. Right now we are in a drought.
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Leave it to nature to twist things around! Lovely photos Marsha.
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Thanks Carol. AND I got them out on Friday – a first! 🙂
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Well done! Did you get my email?
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No, I didn’t see it. And I just closed it. The internet is being really pokey today. 🙂 I’ve got to take a peek, though! 🙂
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I will resend it. I sent it during the week. I have BIG news.
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YES, you did have! I’m so excited for you. Maybe you will see Viveka there.
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