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Kings Canyon to Whitney Trip

Here's some stats and pix from a 9 day, 61 mile hiking trip I took along the John Muir trail in California, USA. I started out the trip with a friend at at Road's End in Kings Canyon National Park (not on the John Muir trail). Then I met up with my brother and other mountain men hiking the entire (200 mile) John Muir trail at Charlotte Lake.

Route

Here's the general area where I was hiking, in purple:

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.

Here all all the hiking legs of our trip:

And a picture of the altitudes we were hiking at:

Pictures

My brother brought along about 18 pounds (!) of camera equipment and took around 1000 pictures. Someday those, or other pictures taken by the mountain men, will make it online.

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: