File:Kern Canyon, Sequoia National Park Backcountry, Flight from Las Vegas, Nevada to San Jose, California (3125664544).jpg
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The vast majority of Sequoia National Park is roadless wilderness; no road crosses the Sierra Nevada within the park's boundaries. 84 percent of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is designated wilderness and is accessible only by foot or by horseback. Sequoia's backcountry offers a vast expanse of high-alpine wonders. Covering the highest-elevation region of the High Sierra, the backcountry includes Mount Whitney on the eastern border of the park, accessible from the Giant Forest via the High Sierra Trail. On a traveler's path along this 35-mile (56 km) backcountry trail, one passes through about 10 miles (16 km) of montane forest before reaching the backcountry resort of Bearpaw Meadow, just short of the Great Western Divide. Continuing along the High Sierra Trail over the Great Western Divide via Kaweah Gap, one passes from the Kaweah River Drainage, with its characteristic V-shaped river valleys, and into the Kern River drainage, where an ancient fault line has aided glaciers in the last ice age to create a U-shaped canyon that is almost perfectly straight for nearly 20 miles (32 km). On the floor of this canyon, at least two days hike from the nearest road, is the Kern Canyon hot spring, a popular resting point for weary backpackers. From the floor of Kern Canyon, the trail ascends again over 8,000 ft (2,400 m) to the summit of Mount Whitney. At Mount Whitney, the High Sierra Trail meets with the John Muir Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail, which continue northward along the Sierra crest and into the backcountry of Kings Canyon National Park. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_... |
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Source | Kern Canyon, Sequoia National Park Backcountry, Flight from Las Vegas, Nevada to San Jose, California |
Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
Camera location | 36° 33′ 51.31″ N, 118° 24′ 19.47″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 36.564254; -118.405408 |
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