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High Sierra Backpack, 2012

Mineral King to Crescent Meadow, in Sequoia National Park.

Plant and bird IDs are from The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada.

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Jim at the trailhead. g4/89/612589/3/145351169.2zhw0i6g.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351172.X64myAsj.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351173.xXfs4quK.jpg Sooty Grouse
g4/89/612589/3/145351171.dllxcPmI.jpg Lower Monarch Lake Upper Monarch Lake g4/89/612589/3/145351175.KUL0hU9k.jpg Benjamin and Ken
Rainer g4/89/612589/3/145351178.8xEI5WmB.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351179.KtsvNtCh.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351180.6jypyo0u.jpg Mineral Peak
g4/89/612589/3/145351182.mTdKmY3Y.jpg Setting sunlight on glacier-polished granite g4/89/612589/3/145351184.ySveBxh8.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351185.mmSCezGy.jpg Starting up Sawtooth Pass
g4/89/612589/3/145351187.ML2mKoNi.jpg Don Chetan Jim Looking west from Sawtooth Pass
Columbine Lake from Sawtooth Pass Columbine Lake The trail down to Lost Canyon g4/89/612589/3/145351195.T8EC3pIb.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351196.SZlGhq1Y.jpg
g4/89/612589/3/145351197.pJgCKENf.jpg Fun with lasers g4/89/612589/3/145351199.7tDkerfN.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351201.uj912Rej.jpg Camp at Little Five Lakes
g4/89/612589/3/145351203.whGehycl.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351204.lSj8M251.jpg Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin g4/89/612589/3/145351206.fu2TcnUT.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351207.V2JRSwIX.jpg
g4/89/612589/3/145351208.ETAvpfnA.jpg Grazing in Big Arroyo g4/89/612589/3/145351210.gBFTgqps.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351211.YBHdNIJ0.jpg Nine Lake Basin
g4/89/612589/3/145351213.BbAeYw4S.jpg Chetan and John g4/89/612589/3/145351216.fO5Eis4s.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351254.fnHiu03u.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351217.piR8E9bh.jpg
g4/89/612589/3/145351218.39DmpDc7.jpg Nine Lake Basin from Kaweah Gap g4/89/612589/3/145351220.wNHaOxYN.jpg Precipice Lake g4/89/612589/3/145351224.3bJxcIyk.jpg
g4/89/612589/3/145351223.IxJSmmZc.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351225.rKA0SHCp.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351226.ilAz3iT1.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351227.3qvcjruz.jpg Mountain Gartersnake
g4/89/612589/3/145351230.NKdyiHwQ.jpg Upper Hamilton Lake. g4/89/612589/3/145351193.TMJ27WC5.jpg Rock Fringe g4/89/612589/3/145351221.ZZZAWswn.jpg
Fireweed g4/89/612589/3/145351235.8aiinVaD.jpg Pinedrops Alpine Gentian Silk Tassel Bush
Explorer's Gentian Paintbrush g4/89/612589/3/145351239.9pEcvtSd.jpg Sneezeweed g4/89/612589/3/145351233.OAShXPud.jpg
g4/89/612589/3/145351234.1mAG0rPs.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351236.TnjUErlm.jpg Mushroom Cloud Lone Pine Creek The old Lone Pine Creek footbridge
Jim at Bearpaw High Sierra Camp g4/89/612589/3/145351242.Sh3MbZIc.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351243.uLuVr79K.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351245.sXNtLl5F.jpg g4/89/612589/3/145351246.4YXEoWb9.jpg
Afternoon thunderstorm g4/89/612589/3/145351248.Sh0UdXMT.jpg Benjamin, John, Ken, and Rainer Joe at the end USGS maps for the hike.