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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



A HIGH SIERRA CIRCUIT ON HEADWATERS 

 OF KING'S RIVER 



By Wm. Conger Morgan. 



The stages had rolled away one by one, leaving in 

 their wake a trail of dust not so tenuous but far more 

 persistent than the trail of a meteor. Our little party 

 stood alone in the shadows of Giant Forest, as we were to 

 prolong out outing another fortnight by tramping through 

 the High Sierra at the headwaters of King's River. 



In the cool of the morning the descent of the Marble 

 Fork and even the ascent of the other side in the bright 

 sunshine was most invigorating and delightful. We 

 paused to look down the valley to where the canon walls 

 rose steep, and to note also the gathering storm-clouds 

 which later in the day sprinkled us with fitful showers. 

 Up and across Silliman Creek our trail lay, past Willow 

 and Cahoon Meadows, w^hose flower-dotted surfaces had 

 been badly ruflled by the packtrain returning from its 

 summer outing with the Sierra Club. Near East Fork 

 we noted a new trail built out to Twin Lakes, which 

 empty into Sugar Loaf Creek, one of the tributaries of 

 Roaring River. Pausing for lunch at J. O. Pass, we met 

 a party coming out from King's River whose members 

 assured us that Glenn Pass, over which we hoped soon 

 to travel, was unquestionably impassable for animals since 

 there was no snow to cover the talus. 



The divide between the Kaweah and the King's rivers 

 makes interesting travel. At Profile View the late after- 

 noon shadows had settled in the depths of the distant 

 canon, but the heights were yet splendidly illuminated. 

 To the right loomed Brewer and its two stalwart guards, 

 King, Gardner, and those other peaks that make the upper 

 King's River unsurpassed in the Sierra. Down the slopes 

 and through Marvin Pass we hurried to Horse Corral 



