Place: CA-Kern-Kaweah

Kern-Kaweah (Mt Kaweah)   
(long, lat)

Description:
“In the month of July, 1897, our party of four—Prof. W. R. Dudley (special botanist of the Stanford University), Messrs. Otis Wright and Harry Dudley (students at Stanford), and I [W. F. Dean]—camped at the junction of the three branches of the Kern, and here we crossed the East and Middle Forks and began our climb up the west branch of the Kern, or Kern-Kaweah, as We afterward named it.” (Mt. Whitney Club Journal, 1902, no. 1, p. 13.—See also, S.C.B., 1898, II:3, p. 188.)
This branch of the Kern was named Cone Creek in 1881 by Captain J. W. A. Wright for an officer of the U. S. Army, and so appears on Wright’s Map in Elliott’s Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada, 1883. (W. B. Wallace.)  From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

Trail is steep. But scenery.


Trips:

• June 26, 2014 - Ten day trip along the High Sierra Trail and Colby Pass-Slept by it above Rockslide Lake
•  June 26, 2014 - Ten day trip along the High Sierra Trail and Colby Pass

References:

•  Flood report from 1966
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Pictures:

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