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December 15, 2007

 

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Humboldt County, California, 1999

Photograph by Catherine Karnow

A car navigates a scenic stretch of California's Lost Coast. Bordered by dozens of peaks rising more than 2,000 feet (610 meters), the Lost Coast in Humboldt County hugs an 80-mile (130-kilometer) stretch of rugged coastline in northern California. The area also hosts the largest stretch of wilderness beach in the lower 48.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Let's Get Lost," November/December 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

 

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