Category Archives: National Parks

Kings Canyon- Cedar Grove – Mist Falls

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9 miles, 600′ gain in last mile. Surrounded by granite. Saw a black bear.
   
    
    
    
    

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Kings Canyon – Cedar Grove – Lewis Creek Overlook Loop

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The Lewis Creek Trail loop was longer, steeper and better than I imagined. 7+ miles, 1,600′, 3.5 hours?! Lots of stops to relax and take it in. The last 1.5 miles E->W back to the TH kinda sucked, but at least there was an outhouse along the way.

   
    
    
 

Kings Canyon – General Grant Grove – Lookout Point to Fire Lookout

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Thabk you, park ranger at the visitor’s center, way to recommend a good hike without being prescriptive. 

Excited to arrive Monday morning, I asked about hikes in the area I could do while the rest of the crew was en route. The ranger quickly steered me to a distance and elevation gain that took into consideration my just arriving at 7,000′ from basically sea level.
Drive up to lookout knocked 1k feet off and the hike still had a nice up-down-up of 600′ over 6+ miles of ridge-hike views.

Volunteers at the fire lookout were great. Should have taken more pictures!

   
    
    
  

on the road CA-180E