Pictures of the Sphinx Lakes in Kings Canyon Park

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Notes of this hike | Map of this hike


2004 hike


Grant Grove Village

Grant Grove Village

Water at the trailhead

The ranger's house at the trailhead


Roads End

Roads End

Roads End

The flat part


The flat part

Paradise Valley junction

The bridges

The bridges


The bridges

The bridges


The bridges

The bridges

The bridges

The bridges


The bridges

The bridges

The bridges

The bridges


Beginning of the switchbacks

The sphinx

The sphinx

The switchbacks


The switchbacks

The switchbacks

The switchbacks

The switchbacks


The switchbacks

Bridge over the Sphinx Creek

Junction with Avalanche Pass trail

Junction with Avalanche Pass trail


Junction with Avalanche Pass trail

Junction with Avalanche Pass trail

Junction with Avalanche Pass trail

Junction with Avalanche Pass trail


Junction with Avalanche Pass trail

Chipmunk

Deer on the trail

Sphinx


Kings Canyon at sunrise

Deer on the trail

Deer along the trail


Continue to East Lake
Or continue below for the Sphinx Lakes

On the Avalanche Pass/Sphinx Creek trail


The rapids along Sphinx trail

Series of waterfalls and rapids along Sphinx Creek trail

The rapids from the Sphinx trail

The Sphinx Creek trail


The Sphinx

Sphinx rapids

The pyramid in front of it

The pyramid in front of it


Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids


Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids


Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids


Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids


Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids

Sphinx rapids


Leaving the trail. Our cairns where we left the trail

Crossing the tributary


First creek crossing after leaving the trail

Up the river of boulders

Up the river of boulders

After the river of boulders back into the forest towards Lake 1


The meadow

The meadow

Approaching Lake 1

Sphinx 1


Sphinx 1

Crossing the creek at the lake

The marshy side of the lake

Still the first lake


Up the tallus

The view behind us

Sphinx 2

Above Sphinx 2 to the southwest


Above Sphinx 2 to the southeast

Sphinx 2 from above

Towards the twin lakes

Towards the twin lakes


Towards the twin lakes

Walking up granite slabs

Sliced granite


Sphinx 3 and 4, the twins


Up the western canyon from the twin lakes

Sphinx 3

Sphinx 4

Further up


At Sphinx 5

Sphinx 5

Sphinx 5

Sphinx 5


The wall above the pond (Sphinx Pass)

At the last pond

At the last pond

Coming down...


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(Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi | Legal restrictions - Termini d'uso )
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