Waterwheel Creek Speleothem

This is located near the bottom of the switchbacks on the Grizzly Flat Trail where it drops down to cross Stevens Creek.

I think this is Waterwheel Creek. Reason being that there's no name on any maps for this creek, but there's an Open Space trail at the top of Montebello Ridge that's called "Waterwheel Creek Trail". That trail drops into two creek channels and one of which is this one which seems to be most prominent. Also, according to the USGS maps, there's no creek here. On the USGS maps, what I'm calling Waterwheel Creek flows down to the east from here, not to the west.

Normally, a Speleothem is in a cave (a.k.a. a Karst), but this Speleothem is flowing over a Karst. There's a large Speleothem along the paved portion of Stevens Canyon Road.

Speleothem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speleothem

More to come...
Subscribe for more content like this
Comment, rate, share & click the bell icon
And as always, thanks for watching