Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Marble Falls

At present, deep snow crushes trails in the High Sierra. In fact, the NPS Sequoia website said mountain passes may not be open until early August. few lower elevation paths are open, such as the Marble Falls trail out of Potwishia. Rivers and waterfalls are engorged with snowmelt right now. I hiked the Marble Falls trail on April 30th, 2011.

The river started getting loud around here:



Marble Falls is actually several continual cascades, the highest of which are hidden above cliffs.







My words won't add anything to the below pictures, so I'm stopping here.




Sunday, April 24, 2011

Whiskey Log Camp Trail

Whiskey Log Camp Trail is an offshoot of the more traveled Ladybug Trail. Vague curiosity sent me up this route on April 2nd.

A cascade in the Kaweah River:



There isn't much snow left at 5,000 feet:

Dennison Range: