Two friends and I began our visit by stopping at Atwell Mill (campground closed again this year, due to the presence of a Fisher Cat) and walking down to the East Fork of the Kaweah River. There were about 1/2 dozen tree messes, AKA “tree failures” in trail crew lingo. You can see the East Fork and a painting of it in 2015 here.
Looking straight up gave us the visual relief of a blue sky.
This was our destination.
We climbed above the bridge to put our feet in the water.
The next day we went to a different bridge, where we put our feet in the water again. Normally I blow past this area on my way somewhere else, but this time it was the actually destination so there was time to contemplate matters of consequence, or, in modern lingo, “chill”. Spending time there, we looked up to see a weird tree formation.
We also meandered down the Nature Trail a bit (but not to put our feet in the water this time).
On our last day together, we headed another direction where there was no bridge. Feet in the water was the only way to get to the other side where we spotted a few wildflowers. Smoke, slow water, but the grasses were still green.
Explorer’s Gentian is one of the good things about my least favorite month.
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I especially love the picture of the “candelabra” tree by Spring Creek.
Virginia, “candelabra” is the perfect word for this tree! Have you ever noticed it? Certainly is peculiar.
For those of us who are not mountain people, what is a Fisher Cat? Like a mountain lion?
Marjie, a Fisher Cat is something I had never heard of either. It is in the weasel family, is on the endangered list (so why can’t it just go deeper into the forest and leave people to their campground??), and is described as having the face of a weasel and the tail of a fox.
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