CA -- Kings Canyon Natl Park:
- Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.
- Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
- Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
- Spiders: The system has identified your IP as being a spider. I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, a number of options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm excited for your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.
- Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]
|
[1]
 KCAN_041101_007.JPG
|
[2]
KCAN_041101_022.JPG
|
[3]
KCAN_041101_026.JPG
|
[4] KCAN_041101_030.JPG
|
[5] KCAN_041101_035.JPG
|
[6] KCAN_041101_056.JPG
|
[7] KCAN_041101_060.JPG
|
[8] KCAN_041101_083.JPG
|
[9] KCAN_041101_086.JPG
|
[10] KCAN_041101_117.JPG
|
[11]
KCAN_041101_123.JPG
|
[12]
KCAN_041101_135.JPG
|
[13] KCAN_041101_141.JPG
|
[14] KCAN_041101_146.JPG
|
[15] KCAN_041101_159.JPG
|
[16]
KCAN_041101_217.JPG
|
[17] KCAN_041101_232.JPG
|
- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- KCAN_041101_007.JPG: From this vantage point you catch but a glimpse of a mountain wonderland. These Sierra Nevada wildlands contain some of the most spectacular scenery on the face of the earth. Jagged peaks drop into glacially carved "yosemite" valleys visited by but a handful of people each year. Bowl-shaped cirques cradle jewel-like tarns, lakes left over from the last ice age and awaiting the next.
What you are viewing is part of the second largest roadless landscape in the lower 48 states. Straight ahead in the distance is the Wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park, administered by the National Park Service. To your left are the Monarch and John Muir Wilderness areas, administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
These wilderness designations were won in the 1960's after a lengthy campaign by concerned citizens. The fruits of their efforts await you at the end of a trail. Or you prefer to journey these paths in your imagination. Books and park programs can help to introduce you to this landscape. Where we travel on foot or in the mind, it is out good fortune to know that these wilderness trails are available for the taking.
- KCAN_041101_022.JPG: The Obelisk is 9700 feet above sea level.
- KCAN_041101_026.JPG: On the left is Spanish Mountain, which stands 10,051 feet above sea level. The Obelisk is only 9,700 feet.
- KCAN_041101_123.JPG: The General Grant Tree is in the light. It's the third largest tree in the world, by volume. 40 feet in diameter at ground level, it's the world's widest-known sequoia. At 1,700 years, it is 1,500 years younger than the oldest-known sequoia. Location, not age, is the key to a sequoia's size. In places with the best combination of moisture, sunlight, and nutrients, they outgrow older sequoias rooted in less prime locations. Apparently, conditions here are ideal, considering how quickly the General Grand Tree has ground so large.
President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the General Grant Tree to be the Nation's Christmas Tree in 1926. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated it as a National Shrine, a living memorial to those who have given their lives for their country.
- KCAN_041101_135.JPG: A very bizarre angle but this is a sequoia that you can walk through.
- KCAN_041101_217.JPG: Kings Canyon @ dusk
- AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
- Wikipedia Description: Kings Canyon National Park
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kings Canyon National Park is a U.S. National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California. The park was established in 1940 and covers 462,901 acres (1,869.25 kmē). It incorporated General Grant National Park, established in 1890 to protect the General Grant Grove.
The park is north of and contiguous with Sequoia National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service as one unit, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Geography:
Kings Canyon National Park consists of two sections. The small, detached General Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park preserves several groves of giant sequoia including the General Grant Grove, with the famous General Grant Tree, and the Redwood Mountain Grove, which is the largest remaining natural Giant Sequoia grove in the world (covering 3,100 acres (13 kmē) and with 15,800 sequoia trees over one foot (0.30 m) in diameter at their bases). This section of the park is mostly mixed conifer forest, and is readily accessible via paved highways.
The remainder of Kings Canyon National Park, which comprises over 90% of the total area of the park, is located to the east of General Grant Grove and forms the headwaters of the South and Middle Forks of the Kings River and the South Fork of the San Joaquin River. Both the South and Middle Forks of the Kings Rivers have extensive glacial canyons. One portion of the South Fork canyon, known as the Kings Canyon, gives the entire park its name. According to the Guinness book of world records, Kings Canyon is the deepest canyon in the United States with a maximum depth of 8,200 feet (2,4 km). The canyon was carved by glaciers out of granite. The Kings Canyon, and its developed area, Cedar Grove, is the only portion of the main part of the park that is accessible by motor vehicle. Both the Kings Canyon, and its Middle Fork twin, Tehipite Valley, are glacial “Yosemites” – deeply incised glacial gorges with relatively flat floors and towering granite cliffs thousands of feet high.
To the east of the canyons are the high peaks of the Sierra Crest culminating in 14,242 foot (4,341 m) high North Palisade, the highest point in the park. This is classic high Sierra country – barren alpine ridges and glacially scoured lake-filled basins. Usually snow free only from late June until late October, the high country is accessible only via foot and horse trails. The Sierran crest forms the eastern boundary of the park, from the Mount Goethe in the north, down to Junction Peak, at the boundary with Sequoia National Park. Several well-travelled passes cross the crest into the park, including Bishop Pass, Taboose Pass, Sawmill Pass, and Kearsarge Pass. All of these passes are above 11,000 feet (3,400 m) elevation.
History:
Kings Canyon had been known to white settlers since the mid-1800s, but it was not until John Muir first visited in 1873 that the canyon began receiving attention. Muir was delighted at the canyon's similarity to Yosemite Valley, as it reinforced his theory regarding the origin of both valleys, which, though competing with Josiah Whitney's then-accepted theory, later proved true: that both valleys were carved by massive glaciers during the last Ice Age.
Kings Canyon's future was in doubt for nearly fifty years. Some wanted to build a dam at the western end of the valley, while others wanted to preserve it as a park. The debate was settled in 1965, when the valley along with Tehipite Valley, was added to General Grant National Park, established 1890.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
- Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
- Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].
