Saturday, August 19, 2023

2023 Main Hike: To Mount Goddard And Back

 This year's main hike was to Mount Goddard in King's Canyon in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

We went from here (main parking lot, see small square):


to here (Base of Mt. Goddard at Martha Lake):


and back.  Total mileage was right at 52 miles for 6 days (really, 4 full days and two partial days).

It was a very challenging trip physically (although interestingly, this is the least sore I have ended a hike in a long time).  I am (as usual) still processing things as there were some other challenges and thought provokers that I had not anticipated.

(I now have to figure out how to weave two travel scenarios in and out separately).

For now, I leave you with some additional photos from the hike:






10 comments:

  1. Nylon127:06 AM

    Yowsa! Hiking photos! That's some big sky there.

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    1. Nylon12, there was some amazing scenario. The Sierra Nevada Mountains never disappoint.

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  2. Snow! There is more snow in that one photo then our entire area saw this winter.

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    1. Indeed John, and we had to cross some of it. From what one of guides said, there is still a fair amount of snow at some of the higher elevations and less sunny locales. Hard to believe it is almost the end of August - another 2 to 3 months and the snows should start again.

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  3. I’m going to have to google up a map on this one. But I’m a maphead anyway so no surprise there.

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    1. Ed, if helpful we started in John Muir Wilderness, hiked over into Kings Canyon, and then back out through John Muir.

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  4. God was speaking loudly there. Or perhaps He was just smiling broadly that day.
    Would love to have seen it in actuality; but I can feel it in your pictures.
    Thank you, TB.
    You all be safe and God bless.

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    1. Linda, I really think he was. Almost shouting, as it were.

      Glad you enjoyed the pictures. It is always a joy to share them with folks.

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  5. Amazing photos TB. Quite a hike, too, I might add.

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    1. Thanks Leigh. It was quite an adventure.

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