Sphinx Lakes in Kings Canyon

Looking straight down past the switchbacks towards the floor of Bubbs Creek Canyon. The trail going up the canyon can be seen below. Can you imagine the work it took to make this trail section?

The Way Carved in Stone

No game trail or mule trail ever followed this route: it was blasted, created, engineered out of solid rock! At first it switches back and forth long and lazy, then boom, it is zigzagging crazily straight up a solid granite vertical gully.