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 228 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA A trail to Kern River Canyon turns south at Bullfrog Lake, passes below Kearsarge Pinnacles and Mt. Brewer, and descends along this less known but impressive rival of Kings River. This route entails some hard climbing over the Kings -Kern Divide and Harrison Pass. An easier way is from Horse Corral into the Giant Forest, east to Alta Meadows, and then south-by-east to the head of the canyon. Frequented routes from the south will be given later. The return from Kings River may be made via Sequoia Park, Kern River and Porterville. Kearsarge Pass Mt. Whitney Death Valley Mojave Desert. Continuing east from Bullfrog Lake, hardy climbers attain the sublime heights of Kearsarge Pass and are recompensed by such a prospect as blots out the memory of the six miles' toiling. On one hand are billowing deserts, on the other, gi- gantic mountains, glaciers, jagged canyons, swift rivers, cataracts, lakes, forests, valleys an in- describable view that robs even the garrulous of adjectives. Every mammoth of the south range is disclosed in hoary grandeur. No phase of na- ture is withheld, here, on the ridge of the conti- nent. The Sierra Club came this way on its 1913 Out- ing, making the ascent to Kearsarge from the east. The approach from the desert side is by the Ne- vada and California Railway north from Mojave, Los Angeles County, to Owenyo (144 m.) and by