THE SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK 



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Photo by Mark Daniels. 



THE KINGS-KERN DIVIDE 



This is the view west from Kearsage Pass and looking over into Bullfrog Lake. From this picture some idea of the lightning-torn peaks of 



the Great Western Divide may be obtained. 



covered floor of the canyon where flows a real river 

 abounding in jumping trout. 



From this point to the head of the Kern Canyon is 

 twelve miles and there are good camping places along 

 the entire distance. The floor of the canyon is compara- 

 tively le\el, though the trail here and there climbs up 

 over piles of talus, as if to give a clearer view up and 

 down the river. The walls of the canyon are not so ver- 

 tical as those of the Yosemite nor are they so symmetri- 

 cally shaped, but in places they rise to an altitude of 3,000 

 feet or more above the river. Riding through this canyon 

 is almost like a morning's ride in a city park, with every- 

 thing visible magnified many times. The trail crosses the 

 river at Funston Camp just above the junction of the Big 

 Arroyo and the Kern and the crossing must be negotiated 

 by fording. From this point on the variety of trees is one 

 of the fascinations. Cedar, pine, quaking aspen, and that 

 most beautiful of trees, the gnarled and picturesque juni- 

 per, are grouped and blended by the Master-hand with 

 a skill that defies duplication and drives the chill of dis- 

 couragement deep into the soul of the landscape gardener. 

 The canyon is alive with bird life. On one trip I saw 

 Nutall woodpeckers, red-breasted sap suckers, California 

 woodpeckers, the Cassin King bird, fly catchers, jays, 

 orioles, wood warblers, and a wonderful western tanager, 

 flashing through the filtering sunlight arrayed in his 

 scarlet, black and gold plumage. 



Photo by Mark Daniels. 



ON WHITNEY'S PEAK 



Stephen T. Mather, third assistant to Secretary of the Interior Lane, 

 who has charge of the National Parks, and Emerson Hough, the well- 

 known writer, on top of Mt. Whitney. 



