Kings Canyon -- Veterans Day weekend

Dudley Heinsbergen · Post by **Dudley Heinsbergen** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:34 pm

Backpacked down into Redwood Canyon, 5000 ft, home of the largest concentration of the largest living things on earth (sequoias)

only stayed one night in the canyon because it snowed about 2-3 inches, then once the sun came out, all the snow on the trees melted, causing it to pretty much rain. on the way out on this tiny dirt road, we had to move a fallen tree, with the help of some friendly illegally-hunting philipinos.

stayed the second night car-camping in the actual Kings Canyon. it was rad.

_ANIMALS_

-2 bears
-half a dozen cows and bulls running along the General's Highway
-a pine marten
-a blue egret (fishing in theS. fork Kings River)
-birds

little rockslide. luckily enough room for cars to fit. some RV was bummed..

frost

some kind of egret or hering or whatever

roaring river

middle fork Kings

ten mile creek area

towards Kearsarge Lakes and Bubbs Creek

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:46 pm

Very cool!

Since when are there cattle in that area? Extremely cool that you saw a Pine Marten. I wasn't even aware that they were in that area.

FIGHT ON · Post by **FIGHT ON** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:21 pm

NIce shots.
It's fun to go up Bubbs Creek with Google Earth.

Post by **Taco** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:59 pm

Cool pics dude!

406 · Post by **406** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:17 am

cool stuff.

Why are cows in a National Park?

Dudley Heinsbergen · Post by **Dudley Heinsbergen** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:43 pm

there are a bunch of ranches on the west side of the Grant Grove Section of Kings Canyon. i guess a lot of people see cows roaming through actual sequoia groves!...

we only saw them running along the road. they go anywhere they want. they were built for mountains!
ive seen them in Santiago Canyon near Old Camp- about 10 miles from Vultures crags. and they are all over the place in the Golden Trout, South Sierra and Domeland wildernesses.

yeah pine martens are really rare to see. sometimes. saw one near Evolution Lake on the JMT, then i was in and around Tuolumne Meadows for 8 days in early august this year, i saw about 1 or 2 pine martens A DAY! near an awesome swimming hole on the Dana Fork of the river. they are very very populated there.

also saw another weasel thing- the bigger "fisher" in tuolumne. this one was squeeling at us and very curious. fishers are all brown and with longer fur

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:54 pm

Dudley Heinsbergen wrote:yeah pine martens are really rare to see. sometimes. saw one near Evolution Lake on the JMT, then i was in and around Tuolumne Meadows for 8 days in early august this year, i saw about 1 or 2 pine martens A DAY! near an awesome swimming hole on the Dana Fork of the river. they are very very populated there.

also saw another weasel thing- the bigger "fisher" in tuolumne. this one was squeeling at us and very curious. fishers are all brown and with longer fur

Doood, you scored! Pretty exceptional to see those species.

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:00 pm

Very, very, very cool pics and trip report!!! Love those bears!! And the snow!!!

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:59 pm

Very nice pics!! The unidentified bird in the picture is a Great Blue Heron. Cool to see martens, too! Any pictures of them??

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:45 pm

Dudley, nice pic's, nice report.

Makes me want to get my winter gear out and start packing for some hikes.

I'm itching for some snow.

Thanks

lilbitmo

Dudley Heinsbergen · Post by **Dudley Heinsbergen** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:50 pm

this is the best pic from Tuolumne...

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:24 pm

Nice. And that's a Pine Marten? I thought they were a little smaller.