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Tehachapi Mountains
[tuh-hach-uh-pee]
noun
a transverse (E–W) mountain range in S central California. Highest peak, Double Mountain, 7,982 feet (2,433 meters).
Example Sentences
In the 1986 book “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water,” author Marc Reisner famously observed: “In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic siphons to slake the thirst of Los Angeles.”
And because pumping water — including pushing supplies in pipelines up and over the Tehachapi Mountains — is energy intensive, conservation and other local approaches that require less pumping would also help save energy and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
It’s state water that is pumped over the Tehachapi Mountains into the Southland, and Trump has no control over it, despite what he implies.
California had its own north/south rivalry, and Otis resented Northern Californians’ snooty perception of the “cow counties” south of the Tehachapi Mountains.
My next stops: the Antelope Valley poppy fields, the Tehachapi Mountains to search for California condors and Arvin Cross to look for more wildflowers.
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