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So Jeff and I thought it would be a good idea to get dropped off at Road's End in Kings Canyon and walk down to Crescent Meadow in Sequoia National Park where our car was waiting. Kind of an empty feeling seeing the car drive away from Road's End. We followed Bubbs Creek to Vidette Meadow. From Vidette, we hopped onto the JMT/PCT and continued on to Forrester Pass. Now, it is not recommended you climb more than 1000 ft. per day until acclimated. If that's the case you would only move a half mile farther on this trail. Forrester at 13,200 ft. was much higher than I had ever been before and there's just no way to avoid climbing multiple thousands of feet in one day of backpacking. At the top, YEAH!, we entered Sequoia and passed through the Tyndall Creek Ranger station. At the juction of Wallace Creek we headed "right" down to the Kern River. I gotta say, the Kern River Hot Springs are the coolest thing Iv'e ever seen in the backcountry. The Park Service made a concrete "bathtub" basin that you can cork up to fill with 105 degree bliss. If that is too piping hot for ya, move a little down to where the water flows directly into the Kern creating a comfortable 85 degree mix. At that point we were pretty much forty miles from the nearest road. Over the Chagoopa Plateau and through the Kaweah Gap down the High Sierra Trail we went. That final day from Big Arroyo to Crescent Meadow kicked our butt!!! And after the pain wears off I gotta say I can't wait to get back up there!