Just down the road from the start of the Way Too Cool (the race that I ran this weekend) there is a fine specimen of Indian Grinding Rocks up on the hillside above the road. The area is not well known or sign posted in anyway (there is no path to the area) and I only learned about it from someone walking his dog one morning whilst I was out running.
There are some 20 or more holes in a rocky exposure half-way up the hillside away from the road. The area is wooded with Oak trees, the source of the acorns that were ground into flour on the rocks. The repetitive grinding eventually formed the depressions that we now see today. I think the Indians were the Maidu tribe (though I am not absolutely sure - they could be the Miwoks).
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