While hiking in the Ventana Wilderness in Big Sur, Calfornia, I kept trying to figure out one question: what is the source of the Big Sur river?
Wikipedia reports its tributaries being the Redwood Creek, Lion Creek, Logwood Creek, Terrace Creek, Ventana Creek, Post Creek, Pfeiffer-Redwood Creek, Juan Higuera Creek, and Pheneger Creek, but the source of the water is not described therein.
Does any water from the Salinas Valley make it into the Santa Lucia mountain range, feeding into this river, or is it solely fed by rain fall? Does spring water play any role?