The National Park Service provides interpretive tours, restrooms, ranger station, picnic area and campground. Trails give access to the Ansel Adams and John Muir Wilderness areas.
Beautiful place to hike and see great nature!
Gordon hiking to the postpiles
Gordon just finished reading information about the postpiles
First look at the postpiles.It's a phenomenon, very unique, the mountains of this area are form by postpile rock formations like this. Here is a viewing place where there is a natural cut of one that show the interior of one of the mountains.
We hiked the trail up this postpiles mountain to hear the ranger's talk that was there.Zulita loved the view of the valley below from up there.
Closer look of the valley below
We hiked up to the top of the postpiples. The trail there is steep but relatively short. Still had Zulita huffing and puffung by the time we reached the top.See Gordon on the postpiles. They are perfectly geometrically form!
They look like man-made hexagonal patio stone floor. It is truly a geological phenomenon!
Closer look at the postpiles
After marveling the top of the postpiles for a while we had to decide weather to keep on trails that kept going up from here or go down and do the trails below.
We desided to hiked down to see the postpiles from below again.
The post are not small, they are big. See Zulita sitting on one of them.
Postpile rocks
Zulita thinks that the best thing about coming here is the beautiful trails among the pine trees.
Zulita loved the trails!
Gordon thinking if we continue our hike down this way rouftly following the San Joaquin River.
As much as we like this river, we decided to go back to the trails
The water current is strong and water is cold, no swimming here.
The river again
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