Southern Minarets Backpack Trip

California Sierra Nevada

August 4-9, 205

My wife Rosemary and I began at Devil's Postpile, hiked to King Creek, camped at Fern Lake. Then on to Anona Lake, cross country to Gertrude Lake, to Ashley Lake. We then went back to the trail and up to Superior Lake, and camped at Beck Lake. We returned down the trail until we reached the junction with the Minaret Falls trail, and then we went cross country alongside King Creek. We joined up with the trail where it crosses King Creek about two miles from Devil's Postpile.

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This page : King Creek, Anona Lake, Gertrude Lake, to the Hanging Gardens of Ashley Lake

Next page: Hanging Gardens of Ashley Lake, Beck Lake, Superior Lake, to our return along the King Creek Cascades

Last page: Along King Creek Cascades, back to Devil's Postpile

Rich wades across King Creek	Campsite at Fern Lake, first night	Approaching Anona Lake.
Heather at Anona.	Anona Lake. Nobody else was camped there.	Cascades at Anona Lake
Campsite at Anona	Lone Juniper	Anona
Anona snowfield in the evening		Anona dawn
cross country over the ridge	The pass to Gertrude Lakes	Rich at Gertrude
Rosie at Gertrude Lake	Gertrude plateau	White Heather
Indian Paintbrush	Gertrude Lakes and clouds	cross country to find Ashley Lake
Ashley Lake	Ashley cascades	campsite at Ashley
	Hiking over the snow to the cascades	Rosemary climbing the cascades
Looking back to our campsite on Ashley Lake	Calving ice at Ashley	the Hanging Gardens of Ashley Lake