San Andreas Fault Tour near Wrightwood 

After experiencing the '71 Sylmar earthquake, the '89 Whittier quake, and the '94 Northridge quake, I really appreciate your excellent presentation here, so much so, that I found it "faultless".

Many years ago, My friend Linda and I went to Jackson lake with our kids for some snow play. A young lady went down the hill on an innertube and broke through the ice near the edge of the lake. She was in the water for over 5 minutes until we got her out. Some guys helped us to get her in my car where we warmed her up. They took her up the road a little ways to a forest service station. She suffered from hypothermia but she lived!

My Chaffey College geology class in 1957 went up Lone Pine Road and we stood somewhere in that gouge gorge. None of us had cameras but the picture of us there as remained engraved in my mind ever since. Thank you for taking me back in time.

My family is from this area. I remember seeing all this stuff as a kid. Kind of bizarre to see someone give a tour of what is kind of like your back yard.

I lived in the area 15years. Have driven this route many times. Been to all the lakes never knew any of the details I have just learned. Thank you soo much !

near Palm Springs, it comes out of the Salton Sea and into the Coachella Valley into Desert hot springs, comes up through the city at a angle across through buildings , neighborhoods and across the Mission Lakes Country Club just under the Country Club and out through another development and then onto San Bernardino . I was looking at homes in Desert Hot Springs and discovered if the house wasn't on it it was next to it

I remember exploring the San Andreas Fault in this area with a Geology class in college -- fascinating.

When I was pregnant, my ex and I took a mini road trip and inadvertently hit a lot of these spots. The Appletree campground has a nice spot that's secluded just across the road. All of the "lakes" we visited briefly because we were looking for swimming/fishing spots were sag ponds you mentioned. Had I known I was traveling right on the San Andreas fault, I would have appreciated it more. Near where the ranches are, we had to come to a stop because a lot of baby goats were crossing the street 😂 And we were able to take video too.

This is truly one of the best videos about the San Andreas Fault! Well done, and much gratitude and appreciation. Really enjoyed this. Thank you very much. I have lived I’m both sides of the fault. My childhood on the west side. My adult life on the east side. About 15 miles away! Very enjoyable

I went camping with friends near Point Reyes, Ca. Next morning I told them we had camped directly on top of the segment of the San Andreas fault that slipped horizontally 16 feet in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Very informative. Iin the 1970s, I worked at the JPL test facility at Table Mountain above Big Pine. We commuted up from San Bernardino and saw many of the fault features, including driving up Lone Pine Canyon. You added much insight into the places we saw. Thanks

My grand daughter is studying the San Andreas fault in school, so today I will be taking her on a tour using this video for reference along the way

This is so detailed. Thank you…makes me want to take a road trip. We are not too far away. This will be a nice drive for a weekend day trip.

I lived in this exact area for approx 30 years. Thank you for this super informative video. Now I know what sag ponds and blue cuts are. 😊

A sag pond is a body of fresh water collected in the lowest parts of a depression formed between two sides of an active strike-slip, transtensional or normal fault zone.

SC here, with fault line and Charleston earthquake history. Have read about San Andreas over the years but this video is Killer! I feel like I was just on vacation after viewing. Thank you for the time spent creating this. I'd come out tomorrow if it wasn't on the other side of the continent. Peace to all!

The music sounds like it was from a silent film, kept expecting an evil man in a topcoat, top hat and handlebar mustache to appear. But I did love the tour, thanks.

It smells so good there in the summertime wind blows up that canyon

I live in Palm Springs, CA. While watching this video, I can glance out my window and see where the San Andreas passes by..just a few miles North.

A very well researched and informative video, thanks! I first became acquainted with the region while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail back in '91. What I like best about this video is that it allows you to connect what you are seeing when you are there with the topography you see on a map. Also, the notes about how the fault has affected human land usage (sag ponds, wells) are very interesting.

Beautifully done! And appreciated the classical background music! Also, the speaker had a clear, friendly, enthusiastic way of presenting his subject! Thank you!

Well done video. I have lived in this very area sense 1973 and have personal been to all these locations (on the road) and now I can check some of the fault lines up close thanks to your video.

The Angeles national forest visitors center grassy hollow has a yearly presentation and short hike to the fault zone presented by one of our Volenteers who is also a professional educator

Born and raised in So Cal. It’s impossible NOT to know about the San Andreas...that said, I don’t know anyone who could have provided the information you have. Super, super interesting. TY !

Grew up in the los Angeles, Riverside/San Bernardino area, while in high school, my friends and I went many times to Wrightwood, and the surrounding area to see the spectacular views. Thanks for sharing. It's been 50 years since I graduated from high school and this bring many fond memories.

Well done! Thank you so much for your time and effort in producing this most interesting vid. Have always wanted to see those back roads and more about the SA Fault and you made it possible from the comfort of my home.

You're all over my childhood stomping grounds with this one. Lots of memories.

Love your word graphics with the video, the explanatory detail of the science behind the fault and and its effects. So much info from a trip that is relatively short compared to most trips I've watched on RU-vid. Thank you, this is a trip I'd like to take someday.

Took me over an hour (going back and forth between this video and Google Maps of the route) to truly get the appreciation of the things to see along this trip. I have traveled the route before but never realized I was tracing the San Andres Fault. Living along the fault all my life, I am fascinated by it. Thank you for another fabulous adventure.

Your level of information/guidance/detail is absolutely amazing. The best!

I feel like I am listening to Huell Howser... and it makes me very happy!

Really informative. I have chased down some of the fault points east of Cherry Valley and east of Indio where it crosses the ten then along to the southeast. Fun trips, looking forward to more of you videos.

Thank you for the excellent tour. Never knew all this existed on this route. Just added to my bucket list. Hope I am around for the “Big One” to see what changes are made.

Love this video I used to go up and down this beautiful place going to wrightwood I used to live in Hespiria incredible and interesting passing the San Andreas.

Fascinating. I used to drive through this area and never knew what I was looking at.

BRW1, thank you for taking the time to produce this video, and thank you for the folksy, Huell Howser voice over! Those of us who knew and loved him miss him very much. It is my hope that, perhaps in a future installment, you might consider back-tracking the San Andreas Fault System south, through Riverside and Imperial counties. I know that a 20 minute video can contain only so much information, but there is a beautiful sight in Palmdale [SR 14] that should not be missed.

I know what it is like to live on a fault. My granddaughter constantly reminds that it's "my fault"

Excellent research, thank you for posting. I'll have to take this drive when the snow melts.

Outstanding post. I've been to alot of the areas you covered, but never knew til know what it all meant. Now I can go back and actually understand more ! Thank you for your time putting this together!

Don't trip over the gulch, when you are walking to the scarp or you might fall into the sag pond where we'll have to fish you out with a chaparrel yucca! Whoever did the map and pics even with Google's help did a great job..Thanks for posting! Who would have really liked growing up in one of these towns? Me me me!

That was significantly more interesting than I thought it would be.

I have driven those roads so many times. I used to give visitors guided tours of the fault features from San Bernardino to the Punchbowl. Been away a long time.

Been interested in this fault line for quite sometime. Can't think of any better way to share the info than what's in this video. Excellent descriptions & interpretations. The yellow fault line overlay really puts the line into perspective of where it's actually located. Thank you.

I recently asked a friend to accompany me to see the fault. Flat out refused. I'm going to follow your guide. Sounds like fun and I'd say, there's nice places to visit. THANK YOU.

I took a ride on the SanAndreas when I was 10-years old living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Scared the crap out of me for days after our entire apartment building shifted from side to side. It felt like being on a boat. Fascinating, but very frightening.

We lived in Devore in the 60's not too far from the fault. Occasionally there would be a quake that would crack the plaster walls. Thanks for the tour.

What a most interesting and well-produced video, as it gives one an on-the-ground view of what's going on with the fault. Well done.

Amazing virtual trip, two👍👍 I grew up on and around this awesome fault zone.

This scratches a very specific, very big itch I have. Thank you so much.

I remember local legend saying Lost lake was "bottomless" because it was on the fault...That myth got proved false during the last drought.I went out there and it was bone dry.

great video introduction, hope to get out there soon

Great video! Traveled this route many times...I thought I knew a lot about the area, but I have learned so much more. Looking forward to traveling it again and visit all the spots from this video. Keep the videos coming. Thanks.

Thank you so very much, what a great virtual tour. I totally enjoyed it very much and so insightful. I appreciate you taking the time and posting the informational video.

Excellent tour and production values. I really appreciate these types of You Tube videos. Keep up the good work.

I used to lead physical science field trips along that region a couple of decades ago. Nice to see it again.

Wow very well done presentation really enjoyed this!

Hey awesome video! Thanks for taking the time to make this! It looks like an incredible amount of work!!! 😓

Masterfully done. Thanks for the guided trip.

Great job. I've been along this area a lot. It's awesome there.

I was born in 1953 I lived in Ontario California, but I was born in Upland, but I was raised in Southern California. I know exactly where all of these places are. I’ve been to every one of them living here for almost 75% of my whole life. I was in a Selmore quake in 1971 also Hector mine quake in 1998 I believe, I lived in Louisiana with my wife for seven years five years in Texas and she passed away and I moved back out here with my dad. I druther deal with earthquakes and hurricanes and tornadoes or severe hail storms that tear of the hell out of everything I’m glad I am back here where the weather is warm, and the winters are mild, I think I can tolerate the earthquakes until maybe the big one hits but when it does I may not even be alive after all I am almost 70 I heard people say that this big one will not occur for maybe another 30 years but when it does, it’s going to be hell to pay and sometimes I stop him, saying the word if this happens as a little word with a big meanie thanks for the video have a great day you have educated me very well👍🏼😀

Amazing! And very interesting. As a kid, I lived right near San Andreas fault line. South of San Francisco. Thank you very much for fun and informative video blog. 😊

I live in Devore (shown at beginning of video) now just below all this. I had no idea about lost lake. Going to check it out. Thank you so much for this video. Very informative.

Excellent, Thank you. Hope you do more on this subject.👍

This is VERY interesting. Thank you for the video.

Wow, this video took a LOT of work, great job!

Visited the town of Wrightwood, once upon a time, in the mid-1980's. Didn't know I was basically on the fault line then. Traveled from Redondo Beach to Fontana, visiting family, and made a day trek up to Wrightwood. I was amazed at the expanse of land and the wilderness. Later, in 1989, I was in the Loma Prieta 'quake. I was at work in Cupertino when that happened. Whoa!. Wild times. Superb video - loved the commentary and history. Thanks so much!

Thank you that was super interesting! I grew up in California but live in the midwest now and I can remember hearing about the big one since I was a child! So it was really interesting to see a visual of the San Andreas

Excellent work watched it here downunder in Australia

stunning revelations about the fault zone, wow, thank you

I moved from the San Andreas to the Hurricane. North America’s most active to the second most active. I love that you did this tour near Wrightwood. I used to spend a ton of time in that area.

Very Cool...been down that way many times as a teen...has a whole new meaning with a background in Geology. ..thanks guys ❤

Great video! I was stationed at George AFB and Norton AFB and went to School at CSUSB. Passed through here hundreds of times. I used to get some dirt near there in buckets and then go to Lytle Creek and pan it out.....just found little flecks but it was fun! Thanks for posting and for the detail!

Excellent video! I am a very detail-oriented person and you made me very happy with your very thorough directions! ... Thanks so much! ... Darla in Minnesota

Thank you so much for your efforts. One can tell you spent a lot of time producing this video. Excellent job and very helpful with the odomoter readings. Will take the tour next time when I'm in the area.

Thanks, it takes a lot of effort to put this together. I appreciate it.

I find it crazy that people literally live on the fault line. Great video.

This video is amazing when played at 2x speed. Even the piano music is a dream!

I used to go camping by Jackson Lake and skiing at Wrightwood. Beautiful area year-round. Good memories.

I'm really inspired to take this exact trek, thank you! Great detail included and easy to follow. Oh, you may want to update your tectonic plate map; replace Gorda with Juan De Fuco, or just north of Gorda if you include both [not necessary since Gorda is usually described as part of JDF]. Really appreciate the video, I learned some new things and cant wait to go and see!

A very informative and entertaining video. Enjoyed the classical music accompaniment too !

Just another awesome feature of my beloved San Gabriel Mountains. Very informative!

great video. excellent photography and the tour was outstanding. learned some things.

This was SO surprisingly enjoyable I just had to thank you! Great job!

That was very interesting. Thank you for doing this. I grew up in LA and have gone through many earthquakes. When I was in school we did not have computers or the internet so this was fascinating to me. Because of earthquakes though I have moved out of California. I do still have family there so I do go back at least once a year.

An interesting learning curve. I had no idea of it’s visible impression on the land.

I live in Wrightwood and my old house sat on top of the fault between Oak street and Linnit street.

Looking forward to more of this study. Thank you.

Sweet. Good job!

Awesome and fantastic!! would love to make a trip out there to see this in person!

I'm the guy who's been caretaker of the Clyde Ranch for 25 years that's pretty cool that we're in a RU-vid video right on thank you

Thank you for a most interesting....journey..I have driven from Inglewood to Palms Springs and enjoyed the scenery very much...not realizing being British.. that I was journeying through one of Mother Nature's less stable landscapes.

Thanks for the info on the fault . Can't wait for more.

Thanks for taking us along. You did a fantastic job on this and I for one appreciate it. I would love to do this trip but I know I will never get to. You made it possible for me to see what is there and how beautiful it is. Thanks again.

Very well done! :) "The driving on the monster tour"

E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T !!!! VERY well done ! Video is dramatic, and narration is excellent in every respect. Thanks for offering this up.

Great video. Very informative and exactly what I have been looking for. I want to tour the fault zone and here is the best info possible. Thank you very much for posting this!

It's more obvious on the 14 freeway approaching Palmdale, the Vasquez Rocks show the buckling of the land, and cuts through hills where the freeway passes through, show how different layers of earth have twisted and turned.

This video is perfectly done and is super informative

Excelent video, thanks for uploading it

Great video! I will have to take a tour on this route sometime.