The trail from Florence Lake eventually meets the John Muir Trail, thence travels through the dry, pine-studded, boulder-strewn western Sierra landscape finally reaching Piute Creek. This is the boundary of Kings Canyon National Park, as well as the junction of the trail heading east to Piute Pass.
Luckily there’s a bridge over Piute Creek. (Joe Grant told me that when he hiked the trail there wasn’t a bridge. Just a log. I would have had to head back if that had been the case.)
So there are a number of factors conspiring to make this a big backpacking camp site. Just over the bridge is a large, fairly flat area with pines and manzanita with plenty of potential tent sites . . . very nice.
Photos: Piute Creek—Sierra Nevada, 2004; Rocks & Manzanita—Sierra Nevada, 2004
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