![]() Both Castle and Mound had a light dusting of snow on this trip. Once at the saddle, you can see the drainage of Reavis Creek as well as some of the more famous Superstition landmarks such as Castle Dome and Mound Mountain. ![]() The trail at this point, although substantially steeper than the freeway-like Reavis Trail, is fairly easily seen and followed. The un-numbered and unmaintained trail takes off to the east up to a saddle. This time it was not but I knew where to look for it. The 'peel-off' to the falls is sometimes marked with a cairn and sometimes not. To get there, take FS trail #109, the Reavis Ranch Trail, about 3.5 miles to the trail to the falls. The joke's on them, but here's the catch: the water volume of Reavis Creek, which supplies the falls, varies greatly depending on recent local rain or snow fall. This, it seems to me, is a major part of the burden of meaning carried by 'tone and texture' in Tortilla Flat. Of Mice and Men (1937), a long short story that turns upon a. In Dubious Battle (1936), a labor novel of a strike and strike-breaking, won the gold medal of the Commonwealth Club of California. Most people would not believe you if you told them there is a 196-foot-tall waterfall (taller than Niagara) in the heart of the Superstition Mountains. bears the implication that outside Tortilla Flat, down in Monterey proper, 'getting and spending' have laid waste the innate and spontaneously expressed qualities which define humanity and which make life worth living. Tortilla Flat (1935), dealing with the paisanos, California Mexicans whose ancestors settled in the country 200 years ago, established his reputation.
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