Mike White

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Your Complete Hiking Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

This Comprehensive guide features trips for all levels, from a half-mile loop by pictographs and bedrock mortars to an 82-mile trek along the wild and remote Middle Fork Kings River, on both the east and west sides of the parks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilderness Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780899976723
• ISBN-10: 0899976727
• Artikelnr.: 34569345

Autorenporträt

Mike White learned to hike in the Cascade Mountains and honed his outdoor skills while obtaining a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University. After college, Mike and his wife, Robin, relocated to the high desert of Reno, Nevada, where he was drawn to the majesty of the Sierra Nevada. In the early 1990s, Mike began writing about the outdoors, expanding the third edition of The Trinity Alps. His first solo publication for Wilderness Press was Nevada Wilderness Areas and Great Basin National Park. Fifteen more titles followed, including the Snowshoe Trails series, national park books for Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Lassen Volcanic, Backpacking Nevada, and Afoot & Afield Reno-Tahoe. Two of his books have won national awards, Top Trails Lake Tahoe and 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada (University of Nevada Press). Mike has also contributed to Sierra South, Sierra North, and Backpacking California. In addition to his book projects, Mike has written articles for Sunset, Backpacker, and the Reno Gazette Journal. He is also a contributor to the Pneuma Project blog. A former community college instructor, Mike is a featured speaker for outdoor groups.

Inhaltsangabe

Backpack Trip Features
Dayhike Trip Features
Preface
Introduction
Human History
Flora and Fauna
Geology
Climate
Traveling in the Backcountry
About This Guide
Generals Highway Road Log
Kings Canyon Highway Road Log
West Side Trips
Introduction to South Fork Kaweah River
SOUTH FORK KAWEAH RIVER TRAILHEAD
1. Putnam and Snowslide Canyons
2. Ladybug Camp and Cedar Creek
3. Garfield-Hockett Trail to Garfield Grove and Hockett Lakes
Introduction to Atwell Mill and Mineral King
ATWELL MILL TRAILHEAD
4. East Fork Grove
5. Atwell-Hockett Trail to Hockett Plateau
6. Paradise Peak
MINERAL KING TRAILHEAD
7. Cold Springs Trail
8. Mosquito Lakes
9. Eagle Lake
10. White Chief Canyon
11. Farewell Gap
12. Franklin Lakes
13. Franklin Pass and Sawtooth Pass Loop
14. Crystal Lake
15. Monarch Lakes
16. Little Five and Big Five Lakes Loop
17. Great Western Divide Loop
Introduction to the Foothills
POTWISHA TRAILHEAD
18. Potwisha Pictographs Loop
19. Marble Falls
HOSPITAL ROCK TRAILHEAD
20. Middle Fork Kaweah River: Hospital Rock to Potwisha
21. Paradise Creek Trail
22. Middle Fork Kaweah River: Hospital Rock to Panther Creek
NORTH FORK TRAILHEAD
23. North Fork Trail
24. Colony Mill Road: North Fork to Colony Mill Ranger Station
Introduction to the Giant Forest
CRYSTAL CAVE ROAD TRAILHEAD
25. Colony Mill Road: Crystal Cave Road to Colony Mill Ranger Station
CRESCENT MEADOW TRAILHEAD
26. Huckleberry Meadow Loop
27. Bobcat Point Loop
28. Crescent and Log Meadows Loop
29. High Sierra Trail: Crescent Meadow to Panther Creek
30. Giant Forest East Loop
31. Bearpaw Meadow, Hamilton Lakes, and Nine Lakes Basin
32. High Sierra Trail: Crescent Meadow to Whitney Portal
GIANT FOREST TRAILHEADS
33. Moro Rock: Soldiers Trail and Moro Rock Loop
34. Sunset Rock
35. Big Trees Trail
36. Hazelwood Nature Trail
37. Trail of the Sequoias
38. Circle Meadow Loop
39. Congress Trail
Introduction to Wolverton, Lodgepole, and Wuksachi
WOLVERTON TRAILHEAD
40. Mehrten and Alta Meadows
41. Alta Peak
42. Panther Gap Loop
43. Lakes Trail to Heather, Aster, Emerald, and Pear Lakes
LODGEPOLE TRAIHEAD
44. Tokopah Falls
45. Twin Lakes
46. Kings-Kaweah Divide Loop
WUKSACHI TRAILHEAD
47. Wuksachi Trail
Introduction to Dorst Creek
DORST CREEK TRAILHEADS
48. Little Baldy
49. Muir Grove
50. Lost Grove to Dorst Campground
51. Cabin Creek Trail
Introduction to Giant Sequoia National Monument and Jennie Lakes
Wilderness
STONY CREEK TRAILHEAD
52. Stony Creek Trail to Jennie Lake
BIG MEADOWS ROAD TRAILHEADS
53. Jennie Lakes Loop
54. Seville Lake
55. Mitchell Peak
KENNEDY MEADOW TRAILHEAD
56. Evans Grove
Introduction to Redwood Mountain
GENERALS HIGHWAY TRAILHEADS
57. Big Baldy
58. Buena Vista Peak
REDWOOD MOUNTAIN TRAILHEAD
59. Redwood Mountain Grove: Hart Trail Loop
60. Redwood Mountain Grove: Sugar Bowl Loop
Introduction to Grant Grove
GRANT GROVE TRAILHEADS
61. Big Stump Grove
62. Hitchcock Meadow
63. Sunset Loop Trail
64. Azalea and Manzanita Trails Loop
65. North Grove Loop
66. General Grant Tree Trail
67. Park Ridge Lookout
CONVERSE BASIN TRAILHEADS
68. Chicago Stump
69. Boole Tree
Introduction to Cedar Grove
DEER COVE TRAILHEAD
70. Deer Cove Trail
CEDAR GROVE TRAILHEADS
71. East Kennedy Lake
72. Don Cecil Trail to Lookout Peak
73. Cedar Grove Overlook
74. Hotel and Lewis Creeks Loop
ROADS END TRAILHEADS
75. Zumwalt Meadow Nature Trail
76. River Trail
77. Kanawyer Loop Trail
78. Sphinx Creek
79. Circle of Solitude: Great Western and Kings-Kern Divides Loop
80. East Lake and Lake Reflection
81. Charlotte Lake
82. Mist Falls
83. Rae Lakes Loop
84. Copper Creek Trail to Granite Basin
85. State and Horseshoe Lakes
Introduction to John Muir Wilderness: West Side
CROWN VALLEY TRAILHEAD
86. Middle Fork Kings River
COURTRIGHT RESERVOIR TRAILHEAD
87. Red Mountain Basin
FLORENCE LAKE TRAILHEAD
88. Blayney Hot Springs, Goddard Canyon, and Martha Lake
East Side Trips
Introduction to the Mount Whitney Ranger District
HORSESHOE MEADOW TRAILHEAD
89. Chicken Spring Lake
90. Cottonwood Pass and New Army Pass Loop
COTTONWOOD LAKES TRAILHEAD
91. New Army Pass Trail
92. Cottonwood Lakes
93. Soldier Lakes and Rock Creek
94. Cottonwood Lakes to Whitney Portal
WHITNEY PORTAL TRAILHEAD
95. Mount Whitney
96. Meysan Trail
97. John Muir Trail: Whitney Portal to Onion Valley
SYMMES CREEK TRAILHEAD
98. Shepherd Pass Trail
ONION VALLEY TRAILHEAD
99. Robinson Lake
100. Kearsarge and Bullfrog Lakes
101. Charlotte Lake and Rae Lakes Basin
102. Trans-Sierra Trek: Onion Valley to Cedar Grove
103. John Muir Trail: Onion Valley to South Lake
104. Golden Trout Lakes
OAK CREEK TRAILHEAD
105. Baxter Pass Trail
SAWMILL CREEK TRAILHEAD
106. Sawmill Pass Trail
Introduction to the White Mountain Ranger District
TABOOSE CREEK TRAILHEAD
107. Taboose Pass Trail
RED CREEK TRAILHEAD
108. Red Lake
BIRCH CREEK TRAILHEAD
109. Birch Lake
BIG PINE CREEK TRAILHEAD
110. Brainerd and Finger Lakes
111. Big Pine Lakes
SOUTH LAKE TRAILHEAD
112. Long, Saddlerock, and Bishop Lakes
113. Dusy Basin and Le Conte Canyon
114. John Muir Trail: South Lake to North Lake
115. Chocolate Lakes Loop
116. Treasure Lakes
117. Tyee Lakes
LAKE SABRINA TRAILHEAD
118. Sabrina Basin
119. George Lake
NORTH LAKE TRAILHEAD
120. Lamarck Lakes
121. Evolution Basin via Lamarck Col
122. Piute Pass Trail to Humphreys Basin and Piute Canyon
Appendices
I Highest Peaks and Largest Sequoias in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National
Park
II Contact Information
Suggested Reading
Index
About the Author