Hetch Hetchy Backpack Trip

Fields of Owls Clover.

The damn dam. Let's get rid of this and love John Muir's favorite valley back to life.

Going through the tunnel on the other side of the dam. Used in construction of the dam, it is now the gateway to the Hetch Hetchy Backcountry.

Sweet Spring Trail.

Kolana Rock on the Right. Our trail follows the green shelf on the left.

Harlequin Lupine - only grows at this elevation.

Lunch spot.

Lots of water making it down to the valley from the cliffs above.

The water from Wapama Falls meets the reservoir.

Walk under a rainbow on the Wapama Falls Bridge.

Wapama Falls in full Spring tilt.

Water everywhere during spring run-off.

Tueulala Falls.

Wapama Bridge. 5-26-11

Tueulala Falls.

Wapama Falls.

Guide Banning on Wapama Bridge. 5-26-11

Wooly Sunflower.

Our lovely trail to our campsite at Rancheria Falls. 5-26-11

Flower festooned trail.

Wapama Falls

Wapama Falls from the trail.

Hetch Hetchy Res. from my afternoon walk.

Rancheria Falls.

Phlox on our day hike up to Tiltil Valley.

Tiltil Creek Cascade.

Rancheria Falls.

Rancheria Falls.

Friends at Peggy's Beach, Rancheria Falls.