Sphinx Lakes in Kings Canyon

From the Copper Creek Trail you can see the broad flat "yosemite" valley of Kings Canyon, and up canyon the hanging valley of Bubbs Creek canyon. Further up the canyon on the right is the cut of Sphinx Creek that holds the Sphinx Creek Trail

The Kings Canyon "yosemite"

The hike to the Sphinx Creek junction is a long drawn-out dusty monotonous overheated haul mitigated by fine views of Bubbs Creek, the fact you are at long last on the trail, and the general Kings Canyon vistas seen from the Bubbs Creek switchbacks. (The above picture location is off the "Sierra Trails" map).