Places: CA-Big Arroyo

Big Arroyo (Triple Divide Peak)   
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Description:
Known in early days as Crabtree Creek or jenny Lind Cañon. (Elliott: Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada, 1883, p. 41.)

John Crabtree and Bill Corse had a mine on the cast side of the Great Western Divide which they named Jenny Lind Mine; they called the creek Jenny Lind Creek. (G. W. Stewart.)    From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

There is a bear locker at the Big Arroyo Old Patrol Cabin

Arroyo means Creek in Spanish



Trips:

• June 23, 2014 - Ten day trip along High Sierra Trail and Colby Pass
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References:

•  Stanford Expedition
• Jim Loco's High Sierra Trail hike
• Backpacking 2012 - trail journal
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Pictures:

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