TR: Sequoia & Kings Cyn (dry camping and boondocking)
Here is a link to our latest trip report: Sequoia and Kings
Forum Discussion
Tiger, you have got the right rhyme. But I have recently discovered that it is not possible to recall the rhyme and recite it accurately when the snake is slithering toward your hiking boots.
My new rhyme is "see a snake, get out of the way till you are sure it is not poisonous."
It does not rhyme but is very easy to remember.
And Phil, there is some awesome geology in Kings and Sequoia -- on the Big Baldy hike, for example, at around 8000 feet the trail crosses the contact zone between the underlying granitic batholith and the metamorphic "country rock" that was pushed up out of the way by the rising Sierras. At the precise point of contact, the heat vitrified some of the metamorphic stuff. Very exciting for those of us who like rocks!
I have been told, however, that this is not so exciting for the spouse of the rock enthusiast who is a little tired of hearing about orogeny. She no longer finds it uplifting, so to speak.
My new rhyme is "see a snake, get out of the way till you are sure it is not poisonous."
It does not rhyme but is very easy to remember.
And Phil, there is some awesome geology in Kings and Sequoia -- on the Big Baldy hike, for example, at around 8000 feet the trail crosses the contact zone between the underlying granitic batholith and the metamorphic "country rock" that was pushed up out of the way by the rising Sierras. At the precise point of contact, the heat vitrified some of the metamorphic stuff. Very exciting for those of us who like rocks!
I have been told, however, that this is not so exciting for the spouse of the rock enthusiast who is a little tired of hearing about orogeny. She no longer finds it uplifting, so to speak.
