The Desert: Ch II The Make of the Approach

“On the western portions of the Colorado the wind comes from the Pacific across Southern California. The hot air from the desert goes up and out over the coast range reaching seaward. How far out it goes is unknown but when it has cooled off it descends and flows back toward the land as the daily sea breeze.

It re enters the desert through such loopholes as the coast range as the San Gorgonio Pass, the old Puerta de San Carlos above Indio.

The rush of it through that pass is quite violent at times, for wind is very much like water and seeks the least obstructed Way.”