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Monday July 26Heading up to Relief Reservoir, then up Summit Creek towards Brown Bear Pass Departing Kennedy Meadows I began the section of the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail towards Brown Bear Pass. From Brown Bear Pass I crossed the Emigrant Basin to Bond Pass, where I entered Yosemite, and rejoined the Pacific Crest Trail below Dorthy Lake Pass in Jack Main Canyon. Index By Page Corral Valley to PCT at East Carson River The E Carson Headwaters to the Sonora Pass Hiking towards Brown Bear Pass Brown Bear Pass to Stubblefield Canyon Stubblefield Canyon to Cold Canyon Cold Canyon to Tuolumne Meadows
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This is Nick and Matt sitting at the Kennedy Lake Trail Junction waiting for their very cool buddy. Met Nick Last year during last year's Tahoe to Whitney trip.
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The dam at Relief Reservoir. If this baby ever goes, so does Kennedy Meadows. |
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Stanislaus National Forest Frog Counting Team. Emigrant Wilderness. Quote: "Frogs Looked Good this Week"
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This is Dimes, Heather and Zack. They just finished busting out a fine piece of trail work. They were an example of the finest youth our country has to offer. |
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This is the trail work they just finished. They boxed-in section of broken down soil within granite steps that have to be anchored sufficiently to handle both the Winter Snows and large horse pack trains.
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Heading further South, I ran into the main body of the California Conservation Corps Stanislaus Backcountry Trail Crew. This was a great bunch of really cool kids who work damn hard to keep the trails, and therefore the mountains, open to all wilderness travelers. |
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These kids move fast over hard terrain with heavy loads. Trail Crew moving quickly up the trail to the next work site.
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Steven, Stephenie and Morgan were measuring out a completed trail alteration.
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I noticed an out of place splash of red on this massive granitic formation.
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Under an angled rock, that did not quite fall flat, a little splash of red pushes towards the sky, until the rock finally falls, and they die.
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A formation on the Granite Dome Massif
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A lizard enjoying the Sun
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| Amazing Rock formations Characterize the Emigrant Basin, which we are approaching. These features begin just to the North of Brown Bear Pass. |
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On to the Next Page South: Brown Bear Pass to Stubblefield Canyon
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