2021 was another pretty bad fire season, with both Caldor and Dixie fires being the first fires to burn across the Sierra, and both in the same year. The smoke in the previous posts Wyoming and Nevada pictures was blow in from California. This made getting out in the mountains at home hard... the smoke was omnipresent within the Sierra.
There was a slight improvement in smoke one weekend when I didn't have any plans, so I dashed at the opportunity to get out and enjoy some Sierra. I did the route below...
100km, and I split it into 2x 50km days. I did not run any of it because I was recovering from a foot injury... the very descriptively named drop foot.
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| Eaerly morning light on the bridge at the end of Florence Lake |
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| Blayney Meadows |
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| Bridge over Piute creek, a junction I'll be back at 60km later... |
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| A dome in Piute Canyon |
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| Cruiser |
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| Beautiful sections of trail in Piute Canyon |
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| Mt Humphries |
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| Humphries Basin |
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| Piute Lakes |
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| Upper Lamarck Lake, where I finished my day |
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| First light over a smoky Owens valley |
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| starting up to Lamarck Col |
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| hey, this is supposed to be all uphill!! |
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| Alien landscapes |
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| Darwin and Mendel |
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| Lamarck Col |
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| Darwin Canyon |
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| The Hermit over Darwin Bench |
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| some peaks of Kings Canyon |
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| McClure Meadow |
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| Le Conte Divide |
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| Lower Goddard Canyon |
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| South fork of the San Joaquin |
Great route. But I think it would be a bit better from the east side... though much shorter. The parts around Florence are great, but not a fan of the section between the Florence lake ferry and John Muir Ranch. It keeps crossing a dirt road which is apparently grandfathered into the wilderness and big old diesel trucks are driven down it. The rest is spectacular.
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