Stanford Crew rows out of a facility right next to[0] some of these salt ponds. When I rowed there - 20 years ago - there were also huge piles of salt right ne

Stanford Crew rows out of a facility right next to[0] some of these salt ponds. When I rowed there - 20 years ago - there were also huge piles of salt right next door; I think it was/is a staging area for Cargill. These piles were big enough to have bulldozers driving around on them. I think the facility may have moved a short distance since then; at the time there was also a truly enormous cylindrical "ship" docked right next door at a Lockheed Martin facility (since disappeared, it looks like). It looked like it could telescope to change its length; I don't know why. They also used to whisper in crew recruits' ears that we would shortly be moving to row on Crystal Springs Reservoir[1], which would be a very different experience. That ... never happened =) [0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stanford+Rowing+and+Sailing+Center/@37.5078811,-122.2193088,4451m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808fa2f7376d8e87:0x29660fa759d54139!8m2!3d37.5047587!4d-122.2179732 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stanford+Rowing+and+Sailin... [1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crystal+Springs+Reservoir/@37.5183377,-122.3612889,12090m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808f7584f0a50c09:0xea1d14e19011e005!8m2!3d37.528!4d-122.365 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crystal+Springs+Reservoir/...