San Gabriel Mountains
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The San Gabriel Mountains comprise a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. The mountain range is part of the Transverse Ranges and lies between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert, with Interstate 5 to the west and Interstate 15 to the east. The range lies in, and is surrounded by, the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests, with the San Andreas Fault as its northern border.
Summits in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Angeles National Forest, San Bernardino County, California. The main peaks are: Telegraph Peak 8,985 feet (2,739 m) (left), Cucamonga Peak, 8,859 feet (2,700 m) (center), and Ontario Peak 8,693 feet (2,650 m) (center right), as seen from Baldy Bowl on Mount Baldy.
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East Fork San Gabriel River canyon, looking west.
Mount Harwood, from Devils Backbone
Mojave Desert
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The Mojave Desert is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the indigenous Mohave people, it is located primarily in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada, with small portions extending into Arizona and Utah.
Sand dunes in Death Valley
The Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) is endemic and exclusive to the Mojave Desert.
A powerful High Desert summer storm sweeps rapidly across the Mojave Desert.
Las Vegas is in the Mojave Desert.