Petrified Forest in Sonoma County CA
Photos from the Petrified Forest.
The Petrified Forest
The trip wasn't all wining and dining! We made some educational side trips too!
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"description": "Kerry reads about petrification process."
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"description": "This walkway is compressed ash from the eruption millennia ago. Of course today it is 'hard as a rock.'"
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"description": "Many of these fragments have been found in the forest."
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"description": "We can thank Mt. St. Helena for this forest in addition to providing awesome terroir."
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"title": "Kerry stands by the Robert Louis Stevenson Tree",
"description": "The Robert Louis Stevenson tree was the first one discovered in the forest. It is so named because it's namesake wrote about the tree in his book Silverado Squatters."
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