This hardly qualifies as hiking – a one mile walk up a trail from Cold Springs Campground in Mineral King. There is always a great variety of wildflowers, and there are aspen trees, a little area of conifers, views of Sawtooth Peak, and a desert-ish area of sage, along with plenty of places to get your feet wet.
This sort of trail bed is called “rip-rap”. It is hard to walk on, both up and downhill.Sawtooth is back there, but the light was not conducive to capturing it with my Press-Here-Dummy camera.Sawtooth’s Peak is just out of sight in the back on the right. (yes, poetry, I know. . .)
Trail Guy along the Nature Trail that ought to be called the “Wildflower Walk” (thanks, Melissa!)Someone was very vocal and visual about his opposition to Disney building a ski resort in Mineral King. Wow – carvings on aspen last a very long time.There’s Sawtooth! (different day, different light)
I know it’s not the same as a quick jaunt up to Franklin or Eagle, but this IS my favorite hike in Mineral King! You even caught my favorite “stop and admire” location–the “Iron Falls” I call it. While I was videotaping the falls, I caught a small trout trying to leap up over, similar to what salmon do when they’re swimming upstream.
Everything is still so green–I’m really looking forward to my visit there (only 4 more sleeps!). Normally, my August views are brown and dry. Not this year, yay!
That soon, Sharon? How exciting! The flowers are fabulous this year, and the water continues to flow. How interesting that you caught a trout on video. I never heard “Iron Falls” but I know just where it is.
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I know it’s not the same as a quick jaunt up to Franklin or Eagle, but this IS my favorite hike in Mineral King! You even caught my favorite “stop and admire” location–the “Iron Falls” I call it. While I was videotaping the falls, I caught a small trout trying to leap up over, similar to what salmon do when they’re swimming upstream.
Everything is still so green–I’m really looking forward to my visit there (only 4 more sleeps!). Normally, my August views are brown and dry. Not this year, yay!
That soon, Sharon? How exciting! The flowers are fabulous this year, and the water continues to flow. How interesting that you caught a trout on video. I never heard “Iron Falls” but I know just where it is.
You never heard of Iron Falls ’cause I made it up last year! Aptly named, don’t you think?
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