Here is the route I took, highlighted and labeled in purple. The John Muir trail is in green:
These maps are based on the nice PDF maps from Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park which you can find at http://www.nps.gov/seki/pphtml/maps.html.
Here all all the hiking legs of our trip:
| start | start time | start altitude | end | end time | end altitude | miles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | road's end | 7/30/02 8:00 AM | 5060 | charlotte creek | 7/30/02 2:00 PM | 7280 | 6.9 | |
| B | charlotte creek | 7/31/02 7:00 AM | 7280 | charlotte lake | 7/31/02 1:00 PM | 10370 | 10.2 | |
| C | charlotte lake | 8/2/02 7:00 AM | 10370 | vidette meadow | 8/2/02 9:00 AM | 9600 | 3.5 | |
| D | vidette meadow | 8/2/02 9:00 AM | 9600 | wheelbarrow camp | 8/2/02 12:00 PM | 11200 | 4.9 | |
| E | wheelbarrow camp | 8/3/02 9:00 AM | 11200 | forester pass | 8/3/02 11:00 AM | 13180 | 2.5 | |
| F | forester pass | 8/3/02 12:00 PM | 13180 | tyndall creek | 8/3/02 4:00 PM | 10880 | 7 | |
| G | tyndall creek | 8/4/02 10:00 AM | 10880 | wallace creek | 8/4/02 1:00 PM | 10400 | 4.7 | |
| H | wallace creek | 8/5/02 8:00 AM | 10400 | guitar lake | 8/5/02 3:00 PM | 11680 | 6.9 | |
| I | guitar lake | 8/6/02 7:45 AM | 11680 | trail crest | 8/6/02 9:45 AM | 13480 | 3.3 | |
| J | trail crest | 8/6/02 10:15 AM | 13480 | whitney summit | 8/6/02 11:45 AM | 14494 | 2.5 | |
| K | whitney summit | 8/6/02 1:30 PM | 14494 | outpost camp | 8/6/02 4:00 PM | 10400 | 5 | |
| L | outpost camp | 8/7/02 10:00 AM | 10400 | whitney portal | 8/7/02 12:00 PM | 8400 | 3.5 | |
| M | whitney portal | |||||||
| 60.9 | total |
And a picture of the altitudes we were hiking at:
In the meantime, here's some groovy QuickTime VR panoramas of certain points along the trip, from virtualparks.org, and some other pictures to fill in:
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