From the archive: This story originally published at The Desert Sun in April 2018. The moment you turn off State Route 178 onto the dirt road that beats through the dry bed of Searles Lake basin, the ...

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The Trona Pinnacles are a natural geological formation comprised of more than 500 spires composed of a porous calcium carbonate rock called tufa. Located about 170 miles northeast of Los Angeles in ...

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The moment you turn off State Route 178 onto the dirt road that beats through the dry bed of Searles Lake basin, the Trona Pinnacles erupt like spires in the dusty distance. It’s as if they’re ...