BGuthrie Photos: CA -- Kings Canyon Natl Park

CA -- Kings Canyon Natl Park:

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1. 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.
2. KCAN_041101_022.JPG: The Obelisk is 9700 feet above sea level.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. KCAN_041101_135.JPG: A very bizarre angle but this is a sequoia that you can walk through.
6. KCAN_041101_217.JPG: Kings Canyon @ dusk
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Wikipedia Description: Kings Canyon National Park
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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 km�). 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 km�) 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 ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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