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domes and turrets, innumerable rocky lake basins, huge 

 erratics scattered everywhere as if the glacier had dropped 

 them in a hurry, gave evidence of recent glacial occupation. 

 The next day in crossing the divide we stood where we 

 could look down into the amphitheaters of the Big Arroyo, 

 Kern-Kaweah and Kaweah. Far below in the latter lay 

 Lion Lake frozen over, with streaks of turquoise blue show- 

 ing through the cracks in the ice. Descending by means of 

 a steep chimney in the Kern-Kaweah wall,* we soon reached 

 the junction of the stream which flows into the Kern- 

 Kaweah from the Milestone Basin, and camped. 



The next day our knapsack party of thirty visited the 

 Milestone Basin, but instead of going on up into the Mile- 

 stone Bow or cirque, we followed up the short left-hand or 

 westerly branch of the stream and climbed a rather flat- 

 topped peak (13,350 feet) on the Kings-Kern or Great 

 Western divide, less than a mile to the southwest of Mile- 

 stone Mountain. The cirque to the west of this peak on the 

 Kings River drainage appalls one with its narrowness, the 

 great height of its vertical walls, and the jagged crags that 

 jut out from these walls. Assuring ourselves that there was 

 no one below, we pushed some immense granite slabs over 

 into the abyss and shuddered as we heard the tremendous 

 reverberations that echoed up out of the depths and saw the 

 huge flying fragments either bury themselves completely 

 out of sight in the residual glacier far below, or go bounding 

 down over its surface tearing up a veritable storm of ice 

 and snow crystals that filled the air at the bottom like a 

 cloud. Just to the west of this peak there is a low notch in 

 the di' ' ^ (12,000 feet) which promises to furnish the most 

 fe. nack animals from the Kings River Canon 



into . ..asin. The slope on each side is not so ab- 



rupt but that a trail can readily be built up to it, and it will 

 be infinitely easier to negotiate than either Harrison Pass 

 (12,600 feet) or the unnamed pass (13,200 feet) near Junc- 

 tion Peak. The only obstacle thus far apparent is a long 



* An easier descent can be found by crossing into the Kern-Kaweah from the 

 Big Arroyo farther to the south, but at a sacrifice of the magnificent scenery of the 

 triple divide 



