Kings Canyon to Whitney Trip

Route

Here is the route I took, highlighted and labeled in purple. The John Muir trail is in green:

These maps are based on the nice PDF maps from Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park which you can find at http://www.nps.gov/seki/pphtml/maps.html.

Here all all the hiking legs of our trip:

	start	start time	start altitude	end	end time	end altitude	miles
A	road's end	7/30/02 8:00 AM	5060	charlotte creek	7/30/02 2:00 PM	7280	6.9
B	charlotte creek	7/31/02 7:00 AM	7280	charlotte lake	7/31/02 1:00 PM	10370	10.2
C	charlotte lake	8/2/02 7:00 AM	10370	vidette meadow	8/2/02 9:00 AM	9600	3.5
D	vidette meadow	8/2/02 9:00 AM	9600	wheelbarrow camp	8/2/02 12:00 PM	11200	4.9
E	wheelbarrow camp	8/3/02 9:00 AM	11200	forester pass	8/3/02 11:00 AM	13180	2.5
F	forester pass	8/3/02 12:00 PM	13180	tyndall creek	8/3/02 4:00 PM	10880	7
G	tyndall creek	8/4/02 10:00 AM	10880	wallace creek	8/4/02 1:00 PM	10400	4.7
H	wallace creek	8/5/02 8:00 AM	10400	guitar lake	8/5/02 3:00 PM	11680	6.9
I	guitar lake	8/6/02 7:45 AM	11680	trail crest	8/6/02 9:45 AM	13480	3.3
J	trail crest	8/6/02 10:15 AM	13480	whitney summit	8/6/02 11:45 AM	14494	2.5
K	whitney summit	8/6/02 1:30 PM	14494	outpost camp	8/6/02 4:00 PM	10400	5
L	outpost camp	8/7/02 10:00 AM	10400	whitney portal	8/7/02 12:00 PM	8400	3.5
M	whitney portal
							60.9	total

And a picture of the altitudes we were hiking at:

Pictures

In the meantime, here's some groovy QuickTime VR panoramas of certain points along the trip, from virtualparks.org, and some other pictures to fill in:

A	road's end	http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZEleyDDdQsskVL8R3XEvzJw.html - trailhead http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZWV6wPlgqmbWS5Tdy11nYGw.html - Bubbs Creek http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZE7vv5UBvJtKofjZvg7Kn0Q.html - Bubbs Creek Trail - Steep! http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZVyTvJK9fZdwEn2o6TEoGAg.html - Bubbs Creek Trail
B	charlotte creek	http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZJJf65DBeM0i_agO3q03YDw.html - Junction Meadow
C	charlotte lake	http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZfBzHHcjzd8BVmaL7dMSF9g.html - view down to lake
D	vidette meadow	http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZwszWXWeWE55reeedeUb5DA.html - overlook of vidette
E	wheelbarrow camp
F	forester pass	http://mahi.ucsd.edu/shearer/hiking.html - semi ok picture http://www.sarigby.net/pct2000/Day48.htm - semi ok picture
G	tyndall creek
H	wallace creek
I	guitar lake	http://members.cox.net/rmscott/landscape02/guitar_lake.html
J	trail crest	http://virtualparks.org/scenes/Zvi3uyjb4JNXo6Bhwsy2v7g.html http://virtualparks.org/scenes/Zj-nvfjW74SFggTBjCLWG_g.html
K	whitney summit	http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZMnVYFFPSsKA3vaX-dkPBjw.html http://virtualparks.org/scenes/ZGdvt3po-f_hiAbL2zk_4rw.html
L	outpost camp	http://www.perrochon.com/photo/MountWhitney/Whitney1.jpg - picture of the camp
M	whitney portal

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