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but the thing about you wise sierraphiles is that your definition of 'easy' and 'hard' has been warped by your years of service to the mountains. so instead of asking whether a specific route is 'easy,' i thought that asking what the 'easiest' of them all is. that might get me closer to a place where i can start considering kaweah basin.
Wise man.
on my first sierra trip, my wife and i tried to ascend the east side of kern canyon at whitney creek. the internet made it sound like a modest challenge, and i did a bunch of research - but we ultimately spent an hour sliding down scree and tangled in manzanita before giving up.
Unwise man.
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member:http://reconn.org
would you say that following the outlet between rockslide and the lowest kaweah basin lake is 'easier' than following the 'tree escalator' between the kern-kaweah and lowest picket creek lake?
the descriptions of that escalator -- particularly by oleander in the meetup thread (can't figure out how to link to it) -- make it sound fairly simple.
apologies for the narrowness of my interests these days!
