On the way back from Mist Falls this year, I hiked up
the Bubbs Creek Trail. There are about
19 switchbacks where smaller Bubbs Creek's hanging
canyon drops that creek down to the level of Kings Creek.
Got up to the junction where the Bubbs Creek Trail hits
the Sphinx Creek Trail, which goes south over Avalanche
Pass into Sequoia N.P.
On the way out, I drove out via Sequoia N.P. and
visited Moro Rock. Pretty amazing views east from that
rock, over the entire basin of the Middle Fork of
the Kaweah, and of its many headwaters areas, along
the 12,000' to 13,000' Great Western Divide.
(I had written "Marble Fork", but that one is apparently
the smaller tributary that goes past the visitor center at
Lodgepole.)
The following year, Turly and I did a three-day backpack trip
in that direction, to camp at the campground at Bearpaw HSC, and
a day hike to Hamilton Lake. Saw a Blue Heron up there.
