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Sweeney Pass Stone Wall?
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dtoujours Posts: 32
11 days ago
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I was driving through Sweeney Pass and noticed this structure, which looks like a curved stone wall.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JVRwRRpgLRP5ykDq6
I wondered if anyone had any information on it.
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tommy750 Posts: 1070
6 days ago
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Okay, I give. What structure?
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2633
6 days ago
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I didn't see it either ..but I was wondering what happened to all the bollards that used to be in the wash
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dtoujours Posts: 32
2 days ago
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Maybe I'm just seeing things! I started to trace it out in red, but maybe it's just a shadow on Google Street View. At any rate, I thought I saw something driving through there, so maybe I'll pull over and jump out to see for myself the next time I'm going through there. I was in a hurry to get somewhere the other day.
https://i.postimg.cc/XYw46g09/wall.png
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dtoujours Posts: 32
2 days ago
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After carefully scanning Google Street View, I think I probably just saw some boulders or perhaps the bollards that still remain on either side of the wash. It seems the bollards in the wash itself were removed and there are tire tracks beyond them in some of the satellite views. I tried to make sense of my perceptual errors through AI-assisted poetry:
At Sweeney Pass, I thought I saw
A stone wall rising, sturdy, raw—
A barrier, perhaps, to time's deep flow,
But in the desert, the winds do blow.
Magic lies in each cracked stone,
In rock art whispers, history’s tone.
Artifacts, secrets, each grain of sand,
A thousand stories held in the land.
Yet beware, for the desert's light
Plays tricks on eyes, both day and night.
What seems real may just deceive,
A fleeting mirage, a trick to believe.
edited by dtoujours on 3/26/2025
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