2004 hike
 Grant Grove Village |
 Grant Grove Village |
 Water at the trailhead |
 The ranger's house at the trailhead |
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Notes of this hike
| Map of this 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 |
 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... |
 A whole family of deer |
 The Sphinx rapids |
(which has more details on the last lakes)
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