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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



THE SECOND KING'S RIVER OUTING. 



By Marion Randall. 



During the early part of the spring of 1906 there were 

 indications of an unusually large enrollment for the sec- 

 ond Outing to the King's River Canon. The members 

 who had visited this region four years ago and those 

 of us who were unacquainted with it were alike enthusi- 

 astic ; and it seemed probable that transportation facilities 

 would have to be taxed to the utmost to provide for the 

 large party that was expected. But April, with its demol- 

 ishment of well-laid plans, wrought havoc among the list 

 even of the most loyal, while tidings of high water and 

 lingering snow a little later alarmed the more timid 

 among the tenderfeet until there remained only eighty 

 intrepid Sierrans whom fire, 'quake, and flood could not 

 deter from their w^anderings. 



Except for the one stageload of Southern California 

 members who traveled by way of Visalia, the whole party 

 forgathered at Sanger in the early dawn of July 3d, 

 and there took stage for Sequoia Lake, a few miles be- 

 yond Millwood, where we spent our first night under the 

 open sky. 



Wednesday morning found us all ready to take 

 the trail, and for three days we traveled in unevent- 

 ful fashion through still forests of fir and pine, with 

 here and there an open meadow or a flower-bordered 

 stream to brighten the way. The lower trail, leading 

 through Huckleberry Valley and Long Meadow, which 

 we took to avoid the snows of the higher route, though 

 longer than that by way of Horse Corral, has the advan- 

 tage of passing through five or six small groves of 

 sequoias after leaving the General Grant Park. Within 

 the park one looks upon the giant trees with a somewhat 



