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Mineral King Trip - 7/12-7/16/2006

The main reason for this trip to CA was for John and I to scout the Mineral King area for a good winter backpacking route. By careful planning, this turned into a truely awesome excursion to CA with canyoneering, jetskiing, kayaking and snorkeling at Santa Cruz Island, backpacking and some good family time. Just shows how much one can do in a week.

So the first series of photos shows Diane, John, Mike, Katye and I taking a hike down to some cool waterfalls along the East Fork Kaweah River. The "trail" takes off behind some of the cabins in Mineral King. There is a lot of bouldering involved in this short hike, as well as some pretty good elevation drop. Just the perfect thing to acclimate ourselves to ~7400 ft.

The day after this excursion, John and I went on our 2 day scout trip going up Miners Ridge, down into Eagle Lake at 10010 ft and up and over the separating ridge into White Chief Mine country for some cave exploration. Mike and Katye went on a day hike up to Groundhog Meadow (some really nice views and elevation increase) and Diane made herself at home in the cabin for some well deserved R&R.


P.S. Photos in 6000 series are mine and in the 1000 series are my cousin's John King.

Date: 08/24/2006
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On the way up to the cabin late at night! Driving late up the windy road is better since you see car lights far in advance.

Date: 07/12/2006
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John snoozing in the cabin morning after the drive.

Date: 07/13/2006
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Diane, Mike and Katye on our way to the waterfalls

Date: 07/13/2006
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A glimps of the falls up high

Date: 07/13/2006
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John and Diane soaking up the shade!!

Date: 07/13/2006
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Mike and Katye

Date: 07/13/2006
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The crew: Diane, John, Katye and Mike still making our way down to the falls

Date: 07/13/2006
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Katye and Mike

Date: 07/13/2006
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View of Valley near the waterfall behind the cabins

Date: 07/13/2006
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Diane and Katye looking over their kingdom :)

Date: 07/13/2006
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John and Diane with Katye in the background. All in awe at the amount of water coming down.

Date: 07/13/2006
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Jeff with camera. Even though it looks like I was about to fall into the boiling water I was quite safe...

Date: 07/13/2006
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Another water picture

Date: 07/13/2006
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Mike and Katye beside the water

Date: 07/13/2006
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John managed to capture all four of us in a where's waldo type photo.

Date: 07/13/2006
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John pretending to talk on the cell phone !?! with Katye.

Date: 07/13/2006
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A nice section of waterfall, don't want to fall into this water!!

Date: 07/13/2006
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Katye, Mike, John and Diane

Date: 07/13/2006
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Another smaller waterfall.

Date: 07/13/2006
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Believe it or not, you should be able to see all four people or their appendages in this photo...

Date: 07/13/2006
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Katye and Mike resting by the falls

Date: 07/13/2006
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Aaaah, don't fall in John... Actually quite safe where he was.

Date: 07/13/2006
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An amazing section of water where the river was plowing into a big rock. We've been here quite a few times and haven't seen this before, a definite sign that the water is high this year. Very cool!!

Date: 07/13/2006
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John documenting the water.

Date: 07/13/2006
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John, Mike and Katye beside the water wall of death. Seriously, it would be lights out if you fell in the water before this brute.

Date: 07/13/2006
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Another angle

Date: 07/13/2006
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John with the valley and water in view

Date: 07/13/2006
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Yet another angle of this water spot. I just couldn't get tired of thinking about the force being exerted here.

Date: 07/13/2006
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Another nice section of the multiple waterfalls

Date: 07/13/2006
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Jeff on a slant face :)

Date: 07/13/2006
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Jeff in his natural habitat

Date: 07/13/2006
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John trying to document Jeff slipping... Sorry to disappoint you!!

Date: 07/13/2006
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Date: 07/13/2006
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Katye, Mike and Jeff. Nice grouping of threes John!

Date: 07/13/2006
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Mist from a waterfall.

Date: 07/13/2006
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John checking out his images

Date: 07/13/2006
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Mike and Katye

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Nice waterfall

Date: 07/13/2006
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John, Katye and Mike with nice waterfall in background. The log on the left shows how high the water can get.

Date: 07/13/2006
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A complete view of this waterfall section. Notice the water of death viewed earlier in the middle, top. In past years we have been able to walk where the water is flowing on the bottom left side.

Date: 07/13/2006
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