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Outdoor Project
The ultimate adventure guide
How your adventure will likely start.
Devil's Postpile is a quick side trip.
The Ansel Adams Wilderness hosts the first stretch.
Just above Rainbow Falls.
Rainbow Falls.
Keep left for Fish Creek.
Sierra gooseberry (ribes roezli).
Landscape decades after the Rainbow Fire.
The John Muir Wilderness starts at Crater Creek.
Crater Creek plunges toward the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin.
Meadow Goldenrod in a meadow.
Trailside ferns and aster.
Interesting geology near the midpoint of the hike.
The descent into Fish Creek Canyon.
Crossing over Fish Creek.
Fish Creek.
The hillside meadows at Iva Belle.
The lowest pool.
A closer look at the lowest pool.
Geothermal features in the Iva Belle area.
The lower pool of the middle three.
Upper and middle pools of the middle three.
Uphill of the middle three pools.
The view from the upper pool.
One of several campsites in the area.
A seculded pool near the lowest pool.