Very, very high on my list of “next hikes” is this one. The photos on this trip report make me … jealous.

camp just below Franklin Pass
Last week I spent seven days hiking a loop through Sequoia National Park, going in along the famous High Sierra Trail and looping back into the tucked-away Mineral King from the Kern River Canyon. Our route took us through some incredible scenery (is there any other kind in the Sierra?), including a night of cowboy camping at Precipice Lake, the site of one of my favorite Ansel Adams photographs. It just so happened that the night coincided with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower …

trip report – The High Sierra Trail (and more!)
(via Two-Heel Drive)

