California Artist’s 1st Mineral King Hike This Season

The Central California Artist, ahem, that would be me, finally had a bit of time in Mineral King and hiked to White Chief with Trail Guy and a new friend named Jessica.

The artist is sore, and she isn’t happy about it.

The artist is happy to have gone to White Chief, and happy to have spent time with Trail Guy and their new friend.

The artist will now shut up and show you the photos. There will be many.

No bridge across Spring Creek, too scary to cross where the bridge belongs.

We cross below the normal place, where the creek spreads out into 3 manageable sections.
Great flowers along the trail, including these larkspur.
First view of White Chief canyon of the season – no flowers, since it hasn’t been snow-free very long.
Surround Sound in water!
Trail Guy is inspecting one of the sink holes.
Here it is from higher up. Two other people are curious. 
We were snow free until the end of the middle section of the trail. This is where we turned back.
There were fingers of running water where green has begun.
I was reluctant to leave the surround sound of the water.
There were several obstacles in addition to the missing bridge.

These brave and strong Park employees went for it at the bridge crossing.

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2 Comments

  1. Beautiful weather, beautiful hike! But it does appear as though some trail maintenance (repair?) is in order! And so much snow, yay! That means the green and high water may actually remain until my visit in August.

    I do hope Jessica was duly impressed.

    Enjoy the Psalm 8 views!

    • Sharon, it has been beautiful. Stay tuned – I will be posting about hikes and wildflowers next. And Jessica is truly delightful!

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