Saturday, December 19, 2009

Highlights of the trip



The Pacific Coast Trail


The cabin was nice. Had a fire place. That sure was a good thing since it rained a bunch this weekend. We had a bit of smoke in the room on the last day.


I believe that this will be a recurring theme. Smiles suggested the chocolate graham crackers.... Quite a big hit with the golden dragon and the flying squirrel.
The Cupeno (Luiseno) Indians would grind the acorns into a flour in the granite boulders that were near the hot spring (see morter holes above). They would then leach the tannins out of the acorns in the hot springs here. "When required they were taken from the granary, placed one by one on a stone, and struck with another stone with sufficient force to crack the hulls. They were then placed in the sun, which caused the hulls to break open, after which these were removed from the acorn with a bone tool, maavish. Afterwards the acorns were pounded into flour in a mortar, a stone pestle being used for this purpose. The meal is leached with hot water to take out the bitterness. This is sometimes accomplished by placing it in a rush basket and pouring warm water over it ; at other times by placing it in a hole made in sand, and then pouring warm water over it, the water soaking away through the sand. The leached meal is afterwards cooked in an earthen vessel. " taken from :
http://www.archive.org/stream/cultureluisedno00sparrich/cultureluisedno00sparrich_djvu.txt http://www.happybeagle.com/lv-online/history/cupeno.html
http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/curriculum/4th-grade/acorn.html

As it turns out the Pala Indians have purchased the Warner springs ranch. Things come full circle now.






Sulfur smells good. 140 degrees at the "head water" of the hot spring.

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