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and on the east by Mts. King and Gardiner, each nearly 13,000 

 feet in altitude. Over these walls several streams tumble in 

 fantastic lace-like cascades. 



At the extreme head of the valley a rocky knoll juts out 

 from the westerly wall. From its summit is a view that for 

 comprehensiveness and grandeur it would be difficult to duplicate. 

 It stands at the junction of three immense canons — the Paradise 

 Valley, the Paradise Gorge, and Wood's Canon. Immediately 

 opposite tower the castellated cliffs of the Muro Blanco, over 

 which pours Arrow Creek in zigzag cascades of foaming water 

 and iridescent spray. The sources of the Paradise River are in 

 an almost unknown and inaccessible region of lakes, meadows, 

 and towering peaks. 



THE BASIN OF WOOD's CREEK. 



Leaving Paradise Valley and following up Wood's Creek past 

 Castle Domes, one finds that its various branches rise amid a 

 bewildering maze of lakes. One of the branches of the South 

 Fork of this creek heads in Sixty Lake Basin while the South 

 Fork itself flows through a succession of the most exquisite 

 bodies of water of the richest and deepest sapphire imaginable. 

 The uppermost of these is Rae Lake, over a mile in length, and 

 situated in an amphitheater of encircling peaks which range 

 from 12,000 to 13,000 feet in height. Fin Dome, Mt. Rixford, 

 Black Mountain, and Diamond Peak seem almost to overhang 

 the lake with their gigantic bulk; their dark, threatening cliffs, 

 streaked with snow and mirrored in the lake at their base, make 

 a picture as sublime as any to be found in the whole Sierra. 



THE BASIN OF BUBb's CREEK. 



Crossing Glenn Pass (12,000 ft.) with the trail in its present 

 condition is not an easy task, but it can be made passable without 

 great expense, and to enter in this way the Basin of Bubb's 

 Creek and its tributaries is well worth the effort. The trail 

 drops down to Lake Charlotte and thence over a low divide to 

 Bullfrog Lake, where it branches, and one may cross the main 

 crest of the Sierra at the famous Kearsarge Pass and descend to 

 Independence. The scene from the vicinity of Bullfrog is of 

 wildest grandeur. University and Stanford peaks, Crag Ericson, 

 Mt. Brewer, and nameless others, rise to a height of nearly 14,000 

 feet, and East Lake and Lake Reflection are not far from the 

 trail down Bubb's Creek Canon, which brings one back into the 

 main King's River Canon. 



It is no exaggeration to state that the scenery which one finds 

 on the round trip just described is as wonderful as exists any- 



