Puerto Suelo Pass & La Ventana

 

In To a God Unknown Steinbeck merges two landmarks from the Los Padres NF, the Puerto Suelo Pass and The Window, the namesake for the Ventana Wilderness.

"The trail went into a pass of shattered granite, and the next moment the
two men looked down on a new fresh world. The downward slope was
covered with tremendous redwood trees, and among the great columned
trunks there grew a wild tangle of berry vines, of gooseberry, of sword-ferns
as tall as a man. The hill slipped quickly down, and the sea rose up level
with the hilltops."

The Esselen Spirit Trail goes through the Window, westward to the ocean, and to an Island of the Dead.