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KERN and KAWEAH CANYONS
THE Sierras contain many of those glaciated canyons to which John Muir gave the general designation of "yosemites" from the chief of them all—the Yosemite Valley. Two of the most notable of these yosemites were added to the Sequoia Park in 1926. These are the Kern Canyon and the Upper Kaweah Canyon or River Valley. The former is over thirty miles long with three-thousand-foot cliffs sculptured and painted in many forms and colors, and it contains the finest fishing stream in the Sierras—the Kern River with native rainbow trout up to nine or ten pounds in weight.
The Upper Kaweah Canyon contains in River Valley, Cliff Creek, Granite Creek, and other tributaries several true yosemites, with cliffs and domes towering thousands of feet above valley floors, streams, and lakes. This region is within a day's journey of the Big Tree groves at Giant Forest and is reached by excellent trails.
LOOKING DOWN KERN RIVER—KERN DOME IN DISTANCE
Photograph by Lindley Eddy
LION PEAK FROM MINERS PASS
UPPER END OF MIDDLE FORK OF KAWEAH RIVER
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