Help Identifying Formation in Josh

Z Olsonwrote:

Looks like the Lost Horse Ranger Station Road. 

That was my initial thought, but it is a bit too hot to check it out in person.

Randywrote:

OK, here is another picture that has me stumped (apparently not too difficult to do). 

34.06473° N, 116.22903° W

Park blvd facing S-SE towards Mt. Minerva Hoyt. Give it a look in Apple Maps, they currently have the highest accuracy digital surface model out there right now. 

Orion Mariniwrote:

34.06473° N, 116.22903° W

Park blvd facing S-SE towards Mt. Minerva Hoyt. Give it a look in Apple Maps, they currently have the highest accuracy digital surface model out there right now. 

“Influencer Alley”  first place tourists find rocks and trees together and not so far from cell service to be uncomfortable. 

Randywrote:

That was my initial thought, but it is a bit too hot to check it out in person.

Randy when you do, definitely take photos. It is fun to see then and now photos of areas. A few years back I did that in one of our local canyons.

Dang, that's impressive.

So the current road is 100-feet or so to the West from the one in the old photo?

Fun game. Didn't the old road go around the other side of Intersection Rock? It would make sense that the road was more to the east than the current road. 

Only nine weeks until Rocktober XXIV!   

plantmandanwrote:

Fun game. Didn't the old road go around the other side of Intersection Rock?

Yes. I still get confused when driving in cause the road is on the opposite side now.

Allen Sandersonwrote:

Yes. I still get confused when driving in cause the road is on the opposite side now.

I know, right?

BITD the road went right through what is now the parking lot. There was an intersection also, with a stop sign. Folks would blow the stop cause they would be looking at climbers on the face.
So the Monument Staff decided to ban climbing on “Intersection Rock” and made a sign “No Climbing this Face”…. I think the sign lasted about 3 weeks until it found its way into a MGB GT and lived for awhile in front of “The Oliver Moon Hotel” on Owensmouth street, Owensmouth, CA. That sign got stolen by one of the “sick midgets”…. Not Jan - the other one. And placed in front of a home in Canyon Country.
The monument staff made another sign and it was promptly removed by “Orange County Boys”… So the Monument staff decided the best, easiest solution was to move the road to the other side of Intersection Rock to accommodate the climber community. When the Federal Government got wind of this accommodation it decided to make a show of power to the climbers and they made the entire place a National Park with “wilderness starting 100 feet from the pavement…” and the gentle Monument staff was let go and replaced with gun toting LEO Rangers.

So now you know the rest of the story. 

It is true that the road used to go through the parking lot in front of Intersection Rock and the entrance to Hidden Valley Campground was located there. In the 1960s there was a sign as Guy describes, but other than that, the rest is most kindly best described as a "good yarn."

But, back to reality. The dirt road in the postcard was very little changed in location when later paved and eventually repaved as shown today. 

Roadway going north of Intersection Rock 1996

And its current configuration 2002

Here is another older postcard with a couple easily identified formations.

Randywrote:

Here is another older postcard with a couple easily identified formations.

Gotta be Little Rock Candy Mountain with Echo Rock in the background, looking roughly NW. The best match I could find is this topo for Flakey Jake.
Do you have any more? This is fun, I have tons of pics of formations that I rarely label, which is a challenge, and often a frustration for my future self.

Randywrote:

Here is another fun real photo postcard. 

Crag looks basically the same about 90 years after this was taken.

The crag might look the same, but the vegetation around it sure looks different today.