Kings Canyon

You can find bigger pictures and more map locations for this hike in this Kings Canyon Flickr set.

The Sphinx	Mist Falls	Mist Falls
South Fork Kings River Valley	Paradise Valley	Paradise Valley
Ponderosa Pines	Ponderosa Pine Bark Puzzle Pieces	Ponderosa Pine Bark
Castle Domes	Woods Creek	Castle Domes
Woods Creek	Castle Domes	Woods Creek
Woods Creek	Woods Creek	Woods Creek Suspension Bridge
Aspen	Pyramid Peak and Window Peak	Bristlecone Pine
Dollar Lake	Fin Dome	Fin Dome
Arrowhead Lake	Arrowhead Lake	Rae Lakes
Fin Dome	Painted Lady	Rae Lakes
Dragon Peak and Mt Rixford	Fin Dome	Painted Lady
Alpenglow	Painted Lady	Painted Lady
Rae Lakes	Rae Lakes	Rae Lakes
Rae Lakes	Rae Lakes	Black Mountain and Dragon Peak
Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin
Fin Dome	Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin
Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin
Squid in the Sky	Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin
Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin	Sixty Lake Basin
Thursday afternoon trail into greyness	Gray Rae Lakes	Friday Morning: No Painted Lady and no Glen Pass
No Diamond Peak and Black Mountain either	Castle Domes	Castle Domes
Paradise Valley	South Fork Kings River Valley	Mist Falls

Lighting Studies

Rae Lakes Campsite

4pm	6pm	7pm
7:30am	7:45am	9:30am

Sixty Lake Basin Campsite

6pm	6:45pm	7pm
7:45am	10:30am	3pm

Evening Clouds

6:30pm	6:45pm	6:55pm
7:05pm	7:10pm	7:15am

Panoramas

Castle Domes

Rae Lakes

Sixty Lake Basin

Rae Lakes

Movies

Mist Falls, Cascades 1, Cascades 2, Cascades 3, Rattlesnake, Suspension Bridge, Caterpillar Clouds

I took these pictures on a 7-day backpacking trip with Ed in Kings Canyon National Park in September 2007.
Here is a map with our route indicated. You can see where this area is on a larger map.
I also made a map with clickable arrows pointing in the direction of each photo.
The tip of the arrow indicates where I was standing when I took the photo.
You may also want to check out the zoomable Topozone map of the region.
This was supposed to be a west-to-east Sierra crossing trip, swapping car keys with Paul and Mark.
But we couldn't continue over Glen Pass and Kearsarge Pass on Friday because of the snow storm :(
So we ended up walking the 22 miles back to Cedar Grove (red on this map) in a day and a half,
instead of going just 10 miles to Onion Valley (blue on this map),
resulting in a total distance of about 50 miles, and about 6700ft elevation gain and loss.
We also had to do 7 hours of driving on Saturday afternoon/evening to get to Paul's car, and 8 hours of driving on Sunday.
Here are some pictures from the road.

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