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Great Outdoors in the Kern-Kaweah Chapter

FALL Outing in the Sequoia Monument
    Hug a Sequoia!   
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCT 1. 2006

YOU are invited by the Sierra Club's Sequoia Task Force on Sept 29 - Oct 1 to join our annual Fall Outing in the magnificent Giant Sequoia National Monument, about 90 minutes east of Porterville, California. You can arrive anytime after 2:00 pm Friday, September 29. Saturday morning we will have several hikes and see a wide variety of spectacular scenery. We will hike through the Wheel Meadow Grove down the South Fork of the Middle Fork of the Tule River in the Slate Mountain Roadless Area. Later we will take a short but steep jaunt to a secret waterfall. We will enjoy the vista from Dome Rock with an overview of the Kern Valley and views into the high peaks of Sequoia National Park; we will visit sites where the Sierra Club stopped logging inside the Monument about a year ago. Saturday night we will join together in a potluck, a unique and yummy experience!
 
As always, seeing old friends and meeting new people from all over the country are the best part of these outings. Talk with the activists who worked to protect these forests and groves for a quarter of a century and who continue to fight the Forest Service's latest plans to log in the groves under the pretext of restoration.  
 
Before heading home Sunday we will hike to a hidden glade in a spectacular stand of Sequoias in a candidate Wilderness area. Sadly, just this week the Forest Service destroyed the main trail by bulldozing it to 5' width thus allowing trespass by ORV's.  We can document the damage and then go cross country to find a Sequoia that may well have been a seedling when Cleopatra was crossing the Nile. If enough of us make the trip, we just might be able to stretch all our arms around one single tree.  Others may chose to continue to walk to the Bush Tree at the bottom of the Freeman Creek Grove, others may elect to hike to the Needles Lookout perched on a granite spire overlooking the Kern River Canyon and the Golden Trout Wilderness.
 
Participants will need their own food and camping gear. Tents are recommended but not required. We will provide the group campsite, spare gear on request, liquid refreshment, maps, advice, and lots of information. Details about this popular annual outing are available by e:mailing Carla at <cac@ocsnet.net> or by calling 559 781-8445. Be sure to leave your name and contact information. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY SEPTEMBER 24th. Participants are NOT required to be members of the Sierra Club.    More information will be sent to you when you make your reservation.
 

WE HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US FOR A BEAUTIFUL FALL OUTING IN THE SEQUOIAS!

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