A Walk on the Tablelands

This is the view that greets you as you crest the trail above Alta Meadow. Jagged Black Kaweah dominates the horizon. The trail can be faint beyond this point.

Alta Meadow

We headed for Alta Meadows, and after another 330 feet of trail gain and another mile, we were at our camp for the night at 9360 feet above sea level. Of interest is the approach to Alta meadows: the trail carves around a small bowl with a small flower banked stream, and as you come around a lip of the bowl to the top of the meadows, the whole world seems to open up for you. Suddenly the whole Great Western Divide is stretched out before you in a stuptifying panorama above the down-sloping meadows which decorated a large bowl trimmed with two small forested areas along the southern rim of the meadows.