⇦ Junction Meadows to Crabtree Meadows

2025-08-04 06:37:12

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2025-08-04 06:42:16

Kern Point

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2025-08-04 06:42:19

Looking up the Kern-Kaweah Valley towards Picket Guard Peak

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2025-08-04 06:42:23

Looking up the Kern-Kaweah Valley towards Picket Guard Peak

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2025-08-04 06:52:46

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2025-08-04 07:03:28

Side by side with the next photo, I am able to magic eye the two for a 3D view of the Kern-Kaweah Valley. Otherwise I would have just tossed this photo, since I think the other one has better composure.

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2025-08-04 07:03:32

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2025-08-04 07:03:40

Looking back down the Kern River Valley

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2025-08-04 07:08:47

Past where Kern-Kaweah forks off, the valley's starts climbing much more steeply, making the Kern sound like something that needed its photo taken. Unfortunately, post-processing these photos is where I learned that I don't have the coordination to shoot 1/250' exposure without more stabilization assistance than a monopod, so the photos I ended up with are annoyingly blurry.

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2025-08-04 07:08:51

This on is blurry, has whack lighting, and I chopped the head off the tree in the foreground.

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2025-08-04 07:09:30

Downstream shots are much harder than upstream shots. Even if it were not blurry, this would be hard to salvage. The hill is too backlit, and the foreground tree is in the way and can't be cropped out without getting rid of the best bits of the river.

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2025-08-04 07:10:58

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2025-08-04 07:21:07

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2025-08-04 07:23:18

A look at the Upper Kern Basin. Something just feels a little anti-gravity about the fact that the river flows from right to left in this photo. The gorge hides how much the river drops off before the canyon exits the frame on the left.

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2025-08-04 07:23:33

A look back at the confluence of the Kern and the Kern-Kaweah. Mt. Kaweah is hidden behind the point poking up above the plateau.

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2025-08-04 07:23:57

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2025-08-04 07:24:05

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2025-08-04 07:25:22

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2025-08-04 07:26:54

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2025-08-04 07:28:15

These creek photos would have been a lot better half an hour later.

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2025-08-04 07:28:40

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2025-08-04 07:30:21

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2025-08-04 07:30:59

This rock seemed out of place with all its speckled neighbours.

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2025-08-04 07:37:49

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2025-08-04 08:00:48

Would have been a better photo with the top of the tree.

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2025-08-04 08:04:51

The upper Kern valley viewed from the junction.

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2025-08-04 08:10:07

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2025-08-04 08:10:16

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2025-08-04 08:18:29

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2025-08-04 08:25:31

Looking back towards the Kern valley and Mt. Kaweah.

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2025-08-04 08:33:15

Wallace Creek

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2025-08-04 08:34:09

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2025-08-04 08:45:43

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2025-08-04 08:46:15

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2025-08-04 08:47:05

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2025-08-04 08:52:42

The sun was reflecting brightly off the ice in the clouds.

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2025-08-04 08:52:53

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2025-08-04 09:11:35

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2025-08-04 09:12:43

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2025-08-04 09:15:02

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2025-08-04 09:28:45

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2025-08-04 09:30:25

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2025-08-04 09:35:51

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2025-08-04 09:36:00

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2025-08-04 09:37:26

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2025-08-04 10:00:53

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2025-08-04 10:02:45

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2025-08-04 10:02:58

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2025-08-04 10:16:24

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2025-08-04 10:18:49

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2025-08-04 10:19:08

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2025-08-04 11:51:32

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2025-08-04 12:05:26

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2025-08-04 12:05:28

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2025-08-04 12:05:36

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2025-08-04 12:18:54

A look at Whitney through the trees

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2025-08-04 12:19:40

Mt. Young

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2025-08-04 12:20:29

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2025-08-04 12:22:13

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2025-08-04 12:26:19

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2025-08-04 12:51:17

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2025-08-04 13:08:04

Focus could be better, but it's my only shot of this.

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2025-08-04 14:04:52

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2025-08-04 14:27:37

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2025-08-04 14:32:39

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2025-08-04 14:34:30

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2025-08-04 15:02:31

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2025-08-04 15:16:14

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2025-08-04 15:16:45

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2025-08-04 16:06:28

I shot this scene so many times and didn't manage to get a single capture that does it justice.

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2025-08-04 16:07:59

My lens hood now lives in a crack in the cliffs in the center of this picture. The cliffs to the right are the base of Whitney.

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2025-08-04 16:08:43

The switchbacks up to trail crest run up the right center of the face.

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2025-08-04 16:12:27

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2025-08-04 16:12:35

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2025-08-04 17:24:06

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2025-08-04 18:01:19

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2025-08-04 18:01:39

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2025-08-04 18:23:12

This phoebe owns the place.

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2025-08-04 18:23:40

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2025-08-04 18:23:41

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2025-08-04 18:25:00

Owns the place.

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2025-08-04 18:36:14

Sad pictures of a fantastic sunset...

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2025-08-04 18:55:09

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2025-08-04 18:55:54

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2025-08-04 18:56:29

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